13 October 2003: A planning application by Newbridge Credit Union envisages a quadrupling of the current size of the premises.
13 October 2003: A 130 per cent increase in capacity on the Kildare Arrow rail service is on schedule to be ready for next January.
13 October 2003: There is no prospect of Kilcock Courthouse being upgraded because the Courts Service is considering the provision of court services in a new 'major civic complex' for North Kildare.
12 October 2003: The Bond Bridge reconstruction project has been further delayed because Kildare County Council says there's no money to pay for it.
12 October 2003: Naas councillor Willie Callaghan can often get hot under the collar in the course of council business. But he's soon to put his feet in the fire to lead a fundraising event for Enable Ireland.
12 October 2003: Newbridge Musical Society is to stage 'Guys and Dolls' next April as its key production for 2004.
12 October 2003: A new €5 million computer training simulator has been inaugurated at the Defence Forces Training Centre on the Curragh Camp.
12 October 2003: FAS is to undertake an analysis of labour market needs in the Celbridge area, along with an audit of the skills of workers at Schneider Electric who are to lose their jobs in February.
10 October 2003: The residents of Arconagh have given the Mayor of Naas until 16 October to inform them what progress has been made in taking their estate in charge by Naas Town Council, so as to 'forestall any litigation' over the issue.
10 October 2003: Kilcullen Town Hall Theatre will be the venue for the 2004 Kildare Drama Festival, representing a first-time move out of the festival's native Kildare Town.
10 October 2003: A quarry and concrete plant permission which had been appealed to An Bord Pleaneala has been upheld by the Bord, to the dismay of residents of Ballymore.
10 October 2003: Business and community interests in Athy are waiting for a decision by the Government on proposed decentralisation of state departments, which has now been promised for 'before Christmas'.
09 October 2003: Newbridge-based senator John Dardis says members of the Seanad should be directly elected by the people, rather than the archaic system of nominations and elections by small groups of Irish society.
09 October 2003: Naas writer Mae Leonard is broadcasting on Lyric FM's 'The Quiet Quarter' for the week beginning 18 October.
09 October 2003: Work is well under way on the €67,000 Liffey Amenity Park in Newbridge, which will extend and improve the parkland area running alongside the river.
09 October 2003: Objections from the Office of Public Works have further delayed the provision of a new Garda Station for Leixlip.
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