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Prizewinners in Carlow County Council's Cash For Cans competition, pictured recently with Carlow County Manager Tom Dowling, and Council Chairman Michael Deering.
Photographed by Thomas Sunderland
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Special "Enviro Watch" signs will be erected on approach roads to towns and villages, encouraging people to ring the freephone number to report those seen dumping rubbish, or throwing litter from their cars.
The freephone will operate twenty-four hours a day and will be connected to an answering service.
Dozens of fines have already been issued for littering offences, and a number of cases are awaiting hearing in the Courts.
Cllr. Aylward defeated Waterford Corporation representative Maurice Cummins by eighteen votes to fifteen, to secure the chair. The 35-member Authority has representatives from Carlow, KIlkenny, Tipperary South, Waterford and Wexford.
Cllr. Aylward was first elected to Kilkenny County Council in 1992, and is the secong Kilkenny representative to hold the post, the other being Cllr. Jimmy Brett, who held the post from 1994-1996.
Cllr. Aylward suceeds Wexford representative Lorcan Allen.
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The Leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton will visit Carlow in September to hear views on decentralisation for Carlow.
According to Deputy John Browne a meeting which was
planned for last April in Carlow to push Carlow's claim for recognition had to be
cancelled because of an illness but this meeting will take place in
September at which John Bruton will attend and it is hoped that a member of the
ESRI team will also be present."At that seminar in September, there will be an opportunity for the business people and organisations to make a case for Carlow in a very positive way," Deputy Browne said.
"I have lobbied the Ministers that really count and have written to every single one of them outlining Carlow's case.I am not in awe of Ministers and since I know that Ministers are Ministers for the whole Country, I had no hesitation in speaking to them and have done so. I am confident that, despite the so called parochialism that every Minister should be looking after his/her own patch, I think that the Government, having set out its standards, will deliver to Carlow," he added.
"We must all work together and, if we get a Department office in Carlow, we can all rejoice together."
Technology Sales Leads Ltd. (TSL), the Carlow
representative
in the National Enterprise Awards, has moved from the Innovation
Centre on
the I.T. Carlow campus to a state of the art facility off Burrin
Street in
Carlow town.
The new office, which will be known as TSL House, is
comprised
of more than 4,000 sq ft. and provides the company with some of the
highest
level of telecommunications infrastructure available in Ireland. This
infrastructure enables TSL to help their technology clients identify
major
sales opportunities worldwide.
The 18 month old company currently employs twenty
five staff
at it's new facility, and expects to employ forty people in TSL
House by
the end of this year.
As a result of the expansion TSL is commencing
a
recruitment drive in the following areas:
Sales and Marketing
Program Management
Finance
CV's should be forwarded to Ms. Sandra Moran at TSL
House,
Burrin Street, Carlow.
Photographed by Tony Maher E-mail Tony
The idea is to collect as many photgraphs as possible of occasions in the Bagenalstown/Dunleckney Parishes area, and compile them in special photographic albums. The photgraphs should be taken by local people and should contain the date taken.
Photographs can be submitted to the Parish Office in Bagenalstown, anytime up to January 15th 2001, nd envelopes should contain the photograph title, the photographers name and address, and the date the photograph was taken.
Photographs will be considered on visual impact and historic interest, and those not chosen for the special albums will be returned to the photographer.
It is expected that the albums will be ready for exhibition around St. Patrick's Day 2001.
Photographed by Tony Maher
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Some of the successful participants in the Teagasc Food Training Course photographed at the presentation of certificates in the Lord Bagenal Inn recently were: Nellie Murphy Tullow , Sarah Mahon Ballickmoyler, Mary Maher Ballymack Kilkenny, Sadie Gorman Ardattin, Brigid Hughes Wolffhill, Tracey Bermingham Ballycrogue, Elizabeth Malone Ballon, Jennifer Wallace Tullow, Margaret Nolan Friarstown Carlow, June Daw Tullow, and Kathleen Molloy Tullow.
Photographed by Thomas Sunderland
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