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More than 40 volunteer tutors met with Junior Minister Mary White and local TDs, John McGuinness and Bobby Aylward, at the Fr McGrath Centre last week to appeal for their support to save the centre’s education catch-up and extensive self-development programmes for children falling behind in school and at risk of early school-leaving.

Kilkenny City’s last parish hall on the Butts Green and the only one not lost to developers through the Celtic Tiger years may have been thrown a lifeline by Social Affairs minister Eamon O Cuiv who has announced 10,000 more Community Social Programme jobs are to be created by the government as an alternative to the dole.

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Family Centres in the Butts estate in Kilkenny and Newpark Close have joined forces with all the major State agencies and players supporting families in Kilkenny to plan a new programme to help strengthen families.

Over 100 players took part in the recent junior open week. Players were drawn from many other clubs including Carlow, Naas, Waterford, Tramore, Wexford and Castleknock.

24 players took to the tennis courts at the weekend to take part in the American tournament. Results from the tournament are as follows:

Kilkenny Communications is family run and has been in business for over 10 years. The business is backed by the Private Security Authority, the statutory body with responsibility for licensing and regulating the private security industry in Ireland and the NSAI.

Residents of the Butts community could face losing proposed plans for a 4.8 acre public family park and sports complex.

The six Family Resource Centres in Carlow and Kilkenny have had to take the unprecedented step of issuing a joint letter to thousands of Carlow/Kilkenny families to inform them of the precarious position of the future of their local community centres and family services following reports of their possible closure in local media.

Kilkenny Communications was established by Pat Brennan in 1998 having served over 20 years in Eircom as an installations and maintenance engineer.