White welcomes poll boost in Carlow-Kilkenny

Green Party Deputy Leader Cllr Mary White gave a cautious welcome to a poll published in today’s Carlow Nationalist newspaper. The poll showed that support for the Green Party has risen from 8 to 12 per cent since the 2002 elections and that Cllr White would take the fourth seat of five in the Carlow-Kilkenny [...]

Government’s bioenergy plans ‘too little too late’

Cllr. Mary White said that the Government’s new bioenergy plans unveiled
today were too little and too late.
“We know that we will need to cut our use of fossil fuel energy by at
least a third by 2020 to meet our climate change obligations,” said
Cllr. White”, But the Government’s own energy experts predict that
energy use is going [...]

CARLOW COMMUTERS FURIOUS AT TRAIN SERVICE

Green Party Deputy leader Cllr. Mary White has supported claims made by Carlow Commuters that the level of service experienced by travellers is far from satisfactory.
 
Cllr. White said,” I have bee handing out questionnaires at Carlow, Bagenalstown and Kilkenny stations to date, to try and gauge the level of satisfaction with local commuters. What I [...]