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The voluntary run Community Savings Bank project is now five years old and this week all eight banks will hand back a considerable sum in saving to local families in the nine Carlow /Kilkenny areas they are run from.

Within days of being announced in the last week’s papers 40 youth training jobs offered by the two city family centres and FÁS have been snapped up, leading to calls from community leaders for similar initiatives for the hundreds of young Kilkenny people with few employment prospects who are still on the dole.

A unique partnership between FÁS and city housing communities, supported by Kilkenny County Council’s RAPID programme, is to create a pilot employment training scheme to take 40 young men off the dole.

The residents of Newpark Close and the wider community have been praised for their response to a devastating house fire which forced four families out of their homes.