News from around the 32 Irish counties

WESTMEATH
The scale of the unemployment problem among young men in the midlands has been laid bare by shock new figures, which reveal that almost four in every ten are unemployed in the region. Figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the midlands, at 38.9% had the country's third highest unemployment rate for young men, behind the Mid-West (39.4%) and the South West (41.6%).
 (Source: The Westmeath Independent)

WEXFORD
An Australian man has been awarded €94,000 in damages at the High Court over injuries to his left foot, suffered when a Wexford nightclub's large flower pot urn fell on it.
 (Source: The Wexford People)

WICKLOW
Twenty-Five Teenagers from all over the Garden County spent a night in Wicklow's Historic Goal without a ghost in sight last week. The Gaol is infamous for the number of spooks haunting the premises, with some friendlier in nature than others. But there was no sign of things that go bump in the night for the students from Wicklow, Arklow, Greystones and west Wicklow.
 (Source: The Wicklow People)

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