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Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary is advising farmers in the constituency that payments under the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme commenced from the week starting September 21.

Athenry has been chosen as the location for the regional headquarters for the Department of Agriculture in the west it was announced this week.

The Galway Education Centre and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway have joined forces to run computer courses for local retired teachers.

Environmental campaign group Friends of the Forest and the Galway City Council have joined forces to implement a new initiative designed to secure public participation in regular major monthly clean-ups of the city’s public spaces.

Mayo Deputy Michael Ring, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, has questioned the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the Dáil this week in relation to second-year payments in REPS 4.

Beef farmers will get a boost from the re-opening of the United Arab Emirates market to Irish beef according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

The heavy rainfall which has blighted east and south Galway, Clare, and Cork has inflicted damage that could cost between €500 million and €972 million, leading to EU funds being urgently sought.

Glanbia and The Agricultural Fund have come together with local Kilkenny farmers, the Phelan’s, in Clara and set up a company which is aiming to create a new low cost dairy farm.

The second tranche of grant payments of 40 per cent under the Farm Waste Management Scheme are being issued this week, according to Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.