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She claimed the baby walker had been concealed beneath a rail of coats in the charity shop where she had been placed as a community worker by the national training and employment authority.
 [Source: Evening Herald]

FERMANAGH

A grief-stricken father spoke of “a daughter with a heart of gold” as he tried to come to terms with her death in a house in Irvinestown on June 24.

Police were called to the house on Sunday night last just after 10:30 p.m. after receiving a report of a woman’s body having been found.

Helena Kearns (37), a mother of three, was a native of Derrylin. She was epileptic.

An inquest into her death was held last Monday morning. Her father, John said he had been informed by the Coroner’s Office that his daughter had died from a head injury as a result of a fall.
[Source: Fermanagh Herald]

GALWAY

Behind the scenes efforts to retain Clr. Hildegarde Naughton as the Mayor of Galway for the duration of the Volvo Ocean Race finale are understood to have been made by city businesses.

However, these attempts failed to come to anything as Clr. Terry O’Flaherty was elected unopposed as the new Mayor of Galway last Monday evening.

But, when contacted, the new Mayor said that she was aware of efforts to prevent her being elected the city’s first citizen but didn’t want to comment any further on the matter.
[Source: Galway Bay FM]

KERRY

The Kerry Deer Society, which helped bring Ireland’s oldest native herd of red deer back from the brink of extinction, has warned that numbers have dropped again and said a ban on licensed shooting of Kerry red hinds needed to be put in place “quickly.”

While Kerry red stags, prized by poachers for their magnificent 16-point antlers, may never be legally shot, the female of the species has long been on the open season list in Kerry.
[Source: Irish Times]

KILDARE

Kildare South TD Jack Wall won’t be able to vote for himself in the next election following the changes in the general election constituency boundaries.

The changes will see Monasterevin, Kildangan, Ballybracken, Harristown, Kilberry and Churchtown move from Kildare South to the new three-seat Laois constituency.

While people in these areas may dislike having to discard their Lilywhite voting card in favor of the blue of Laois the changes will have a particularly significant impact on Deputy Wall as he explained to the Kildare Nationalist.
[Source: Kildare Nationalist]

KILKENNY

Insulation in every council house and a wireless city – just two of the things that new Mayor Sean O’ hArgain hopes to champion during his term of office.

It was the overview of Mayor O’ hArgain’s aims that prompted Cathaoirleach Paul Cuddihy to jokingly remind him that he had “12 months, and not five years” to achieve it.

Mayor O’ hArgain said he wished to build on the work of the late Joe Cody, who he said promised and delivered on the demand for central heating in every local authority house in Kilkenny.
[Source: Kilkenny People}

LAOIS

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