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The community of Ballygar has been left reeling by the news of the forthcoming closure of Aonad Family Resource Centre and its Community Services Programme.

There is no truth in speculation that Mervue Health Centre is to close or that its staff are to be relocated to the primary care centre in Doughiska.

A 48-year-old man from Carrowmore-Lacken was before Ballina District Court on Tuesday where he was sent forward for trial to the next sitting of the Central Criminal Court.

Kilkenny’s homeless action services has dealt with more than 200 people who were homeless or at risk of homelessness through the services of the newly established Kilkenny Homeless Action Team (KHAT).

Age Action is urging older people not to respond to the economic hardship caused by the new prescription charge by not taking their prescribed medication.

Mullingar Town Council is to write to the new Minister for Social Protection, Éamon Ó Cuív, to sort out what one local councillor has termed the “anomalies” in the Mortgage Interest Supplement scheme (MIS).

Ireland’s leading housing charity is seeking a complete overhaul of the Mortgage Interest Supplement claiming its criteria are too strict and not realistic in the current environment.

Ireland’s leading housing charity is seeking a complete overhaul of the Mortgage Interest Supplement claiming its criteria are too strict and not realistic in the current environment.

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring proposed at the Westport Joint Policing Committee on Monday that the JPC should write to Minister Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in relation to the rent supplement scheme and recommend that the HSE will not provide rent supplement for people who are not on the local authority housing list or who have not had police checks.