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North Kilkenny councillor Mary Hilda Cavanagh proposed a motion at Kilkenny County Council’s December meeting asking her colleagues to support her proposal that the council work with other local authorities in the southeast to restore the sugar beet industry in the area.

Kilkenny’s new Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government Phil Hogan has said that the prospects of a new city library are in the pipeline and that he hoped that this project might go ahead in 2011- 2012.

North Kilkenny Councillor Mary Hilda Cavanagh (FG) has criticised government allocations across a range of grant schemes administered by Kilkenny County Council including the Housing Aid for older persons and the Disability grant scheme.

A series of traffic accidents has prompted a north Kilkenny councillor to draw attention to a dangerous bend on the N78 road at Damerstown.

A north Kilkenny councillor has called for a ban on drinking on the streets of towns such as Castlecomer.

The former coalminers of Castlecomer, under the auspicies of The National Coal Miners Group (NMG), have called for the establishment of a compensation tribunal for persons who have suffered injury as a result of their exposure to coal dust particles in the course of their work as coal miners.

New budgetary guidelines on education are having a devastating effect on the ground, according to a north Kilkenny councillor.

In the current economic climate it is important for our local councillors to do their best to support the interests of existing businesses as well as new development in the county, according to a north Kilkenny councillor.

A north Kilkenny councillor has called for Enterprise Ireland and the IDA to attract a high-tech manufacturing facility to Castlecomer.

North Kilkenny Councillor, Mary Hilda Cavanagh has welcomed the news that safety signs are to be erected by the county council at Johnstown primary school.