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  • CLLR. CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO PRICE OF DIESEL

    Created: Friday, 09 May 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
    A survey carried out by AA Roadwatch has found that the average retail price per litre of diesel in April 2008 was 124.6c while petrol prices for the same period were on average 120.7c. Prices for both rose since March when diesel was 122.2c and petrol wa...

  • LISBON TREATY WILL DELIVER A MORE DEMOCRATIC AND ACCOUNTABLE EUROPE

    Created: Friday, 09 May 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
      The Labour Party is urging people to vote in favour of the Lisbon Reform Treaty because it includes a range of provisions which enhance democratic accountability, move the Union’s institutions closer to the citizen and make them more accessible.&...

  • GOVT MUST TAKE ACTION ON LIVE REGISTER FIGURES

    Created: Friday, 09 May 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
    We hoped we would never see the live register figures hit the 200,000 mark but given the fact they are now hovering below that level and if the present pattern continues before the end of the year they could be as bad as those seen in the worst days of th...

  • BERTIE CAN STILL DO THE STATE SOME SERVICE

    Created: Wednesday, 09 April 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
     The Labour Party Candidate for Meath County Council in the Kells Area has said that he believes that Bertie Ahern can still do the State and the people of Ireland a great service if he is so willing.  Cllr. Collins was speaking following his se...

  • NO STRATEGY, NO-ONE IN CHARGE: ESRI REPORT LEAVES COWEN'S RECORD IN SHREDS

    Created: Friday, 14 March 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Councillor for Kells T.C.'The ESRI Economic Commentary published today leaves Brian Cowen’s record as Minister for Finance in shreds’. This year growth in the Irish economy will be slower than at any tim...

  • REFERENDUM COMMISSION SHOULD BE SCRAPPED

    Created: Saturday, 08 March 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
    Cllr Brian Collins, the Labour Party Candidate for Meath West in the last General Election has called for the abolition of the Referendum Commission.  At the very least the Kells Town Councillor said the vote on the Lisbon Treaty should be the last ever ...

  • FAMILIES FEEL THE PINCH OF RISING FOOD COSTS

    Created: Tuesday, 22 January 2008 00:00 Author: Admin
    “Many families are feeling the pinch following massive rises in food prices over the last 12 months, many of which are stables for most families’ weekly shop,” Labour’s Cllr. Brian Collins has said. ...

  • CRIMINAL ASSETS MUST BE REINVESTED IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES

    Created: Friday, 18 May 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Labour Party Candidate for Meath West Cllr. Brian Collins has said that the assets gathered by major criminals through their illegal activities must be reinvested in disadvantaged communities, especially areas with severe drug problems, when their propert...

  • LABOUR WILL GIVE ALL CHILDREN ONE YEAR’S FREE PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION

    Created: Friday, 18 May 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Labour Party Candidate for Meath West Cllr. Brian Collins has said that the Labour Party is committed to providing one year’s free pre-school education for our children. Councillor Collins said this was one of Labour’s key ‘Commitments for Change’...

  • COLLINS WELCOMES JOBS BOOST FOR KELLS

    Created: Tuesday, 08 May 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestLabour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has welcomed the announcement of 200 jobs for his hometown of Kells. Cllr Collins, who is the Vice-Chair of the Town Council ...

  • Labour Candidate stands up for Nurses.

    Created: Monday, 07 May 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr. Brian Collins, has come out strongly on the issue of the nurses dispute. He said that the Government's attitude to the nurses is highl...

  • Labour's 2,300 extra hospital beds will compensate for FF/PD broken promises.

    Created: Monday, 07 May 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestOf all the false promises made by Fianna Fail during the 2002 election campaign none was so brazen or insincere as the announcement made by Bertie Ahern on May 6th, 2002, that ‘in go...

  • Labour's measures will stop Ireland being 'Dirty Man' of Europe

    Created: Sunday, 06 May 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestLabour Party General Election candidate Cllr. Brian Collins of Kells has said that Labour in Government is determined to address Ireland’s status as the ‘dirty man’ of Europe by ...

  • Eureka site should be located beside existing schools

    Created: Friday, 27 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that proper location for the new Eureka school should be beside the existing schools campus and not at the top o...

  • Collins says Meath sports funding is abysmal

    Created: Friday, 27 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that the figures for Sports funding in County Meath when compared to the rest of the Country are abysmal. ...

  • Collins urges voters to give Bertie an answer on Electronic Voting

    Created: Wednesday, 25 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that recent comments by the Taoiseach in Meath about electronic voting demonstrate that he is out of touch with ...

  • Collins says Meath facing Secondary Schools timebomb

    Created: Friday, 20 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that County Meath is facing a massive crises in secondary education in years to come as little planning or foret...

  • Collins Backs Student's campaign

    Created: Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has backed the Union of Students in Ireland campaign for a streamlining of the students grants system. There has been co...

  • Collins says Labour Gardaí increase will see stations open longer

    Created: Tuesday, 17 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that Labours election pledge to increase Garda numbers and put more Gardai on the beat in neighbourhoods will en...

  • Collins says County is literally falling apart

    Created: Monday, 16 April 2007 00:00 Author: Admin
    Statement By Cllr. Brian Collins, Labour Party Candidate for Meath WestThe Labour Party Candidate for Meath West, Cllr Brian Collins, has said that in the few months since he began his campaign for the Dáil he has been shocked with the stories people hav...
 

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Cathaoirleach Brian Collins meeting members of the Navan Road Club as they cycled through Kells yesterday on their annual charity run. 

They were raising money for Alzheimers. 

 

 

Pictured at the opening of the Kells History Exhibit.