Green Party T.D. for Carlow/Kilkenny Mary White has welcomed a spanking new fire station for Graiguenamangh. Speaking after the announcement Deputy White said: “I am absolutely delighted that Graiguenamanagh is at last getting a new station. I have visited the present premises and they are far from satisfactory, being cramped and [...]

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Green Party T.D. for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White, has urged the Government to provide Carlow with its own full-time, dedicated law centre. Carlow is one of three counties in Ireland without such a centre.

Speaking during an adjournment debate Deputy White raised in the Dáil last Thursday, the Green Party Deputy Leader said: [...]

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Another series of climate change / peak oil awareness raising events continue this week at Butler House. This thursday will be the last of 3 events throughout June hosted by Future Proof Kilkenny. Last month the same group ran a series called Global Lunch Box . Both these series are an endevour to look at [...]

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Green Party T.D. for Carlow/Kilkenny Mary White has welcomed the €41,000 in funding allocated to Kilkenny for youth club equipment grants as well as the €129,224 for enhancing the county’s school parent rooms and libraries. The funding, allocated from the Dormant Accoungs Fund and the RAPID Leverage Fund, is aimed to enhance school library facilities [...]

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Green Party T.D. for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White, has welcomed the €25,000 in funding allocated to Carlow today for youth club equipment grants as well as the €84,000 in funding announced for enhancing school parent rooms and libraries. The funding, allocated from the Dormant Accoungs Fund and the RAPID Leverage Fund, is aimed to enhance school [...]

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Green Party Leader and Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley will visit Carlow on Monday 16 June 2008.
Green Party Deputy Leader Mary White TD will accompany the Minister on his visit. His itinerary is as follows:
10.30am: Raise Green Flag at Ballon National School
11.30am: Raise Green Flag at Clonegal National School
12.30pm: Raise Green [...]

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As most of you know Cathy Fitzgearld is now managing Artlinks, a wonderful resource for artists in the 5-county south-east area. Artlinks has become a great success with over 750 people actively availing of the service. It will be of little surprise to many of you that this success has come about due to the [...]

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Green Party T.D. for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White, hosted a forum for Kilkenny businesses last night, in what she has described as “a meaningful opportunity for business people to discuss the changing climate of our environment and economy.”

Speaking after the forum, entitled ‘Changing Business in a Changing Climate‘, the Green Party spokesperson [...]

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