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St Mary’s National School, Athlone has claimed the winner’s title for the Outdoor Classroom competition for 2012.

The new chairman of the Kilkenny County Council was recently voted in at a special meeting of Kilkenny County Council.

The prestigious Green Flag Award was presented to nine schools from across the county, at an awards ceremony held in Hotel Kilkenny, on May 20. Three schools were awarded Green Flags for the first time and a further six schools successfully renewed their Green Flags.

Carlow Kilkenny’s youngest Oireachtas member Senator John Paul Phelan has hit out at the Government’s announcement that it is to scrap decentralisation plans for now.

Commissioning work has begun on the new €75m waste water treatment plant at Gorteens, Belview, Co Kilkenny which will cater for the needs of Waterford city and the city’s environs in south Kilkenny.

Longford/Westmeath Deputy James Bannon has welcomed the announcement by Minister for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government, John Gormley, that local authority housing tenants are to be offered the chance to buy their rented apartments.

Local Fine Gael TD James Bannon walked out of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Heritage & Local Government on Tuesday, in protest at the Government’s failure to set up a river Shannon authority to ensure that flooding will not devastate housing, farming, business, and tourism in the Midlands again.