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This modern detached home, now on offer at a reduced asking price, certainly has a lot to offer. The kitchen features beautiful oak Shaker style fitted units with fully integrated appliances, finished off with an attractive black granite worktop. Oak flooring is provided virtually throughout. The en suite master bedroom comes with a walk-in wardrobe. The house also offers genuine potential as there is a further c930 square feet of space in the attic which is ready for conversion with Velux windows and access by a full concrete stairs already supplied. Outside there are lawns and timber decking, and a driveway with slip form kerbing.

The reduction in capital income from car tax, following the introduction of new car tax brackets, will have a negative impact on the funds for road maintenance according to Environment Minister John Gormley.

A possible merger or sale are among the options currently being examined by Elan in order to secure the future of the company.

A group exhibition at the Sea, Sky Shore Gallery, James Street, Westport, featuring work made by the following artists at Custom House Studios during 2008; Cecilia Bullo, Breda Burns, Nick Devaney, Pam Gray, Christina Heraty, Niall McCormack, Sinead Wall, Ian Wieczorek, and Katja Wittmer will be opened by Councillor Margaret Adams, chairperson of Custom House Studios, on Thursday January 29 at 6pm. The exhibition will continue until February 28.

As part of the ongoing Garda investigation into the theft of ATM machines from business premises in the south-eastern and eastern regions, a further number of searches were carried out on Thursday November 26 last.

Mayo hoteliers have condemned as outrageous the decision by the board of the ESB to pay the 3.5 per cent wage increase under Towards 2016 (the first phase of the transition agreement). The Mayo branch of the Irish Hotels Federation has questioned whether the board of the ESB has fully grasped the perilous condition of the Irish economy and calls on the Commission on Energy Regulation (CER) to intervene immediately and instruct the board to reverse its decision and to disallow wage increases in the calculation energy tariffs. It states that any increases would further erode Irish industry’s competitiveness, particularly when the focus should now be on seeking whatever means possible to reduce electricity costs.

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Ikea is the most recent company to announce the opening of a new store in 2009. The Ikea store is set to open on Monday July 27 in Ballymun in Dublin. In late December EZ Living at Terryland Retail Park opened up in a new location on the Tipperary road in Limerick.

Tax on second homes which was introduced in the April Budget has raised more than €51 million nationally with €1,581,560 raised for Mayo County Council, as reported in this week’s Irish Times.

A Galway man was convicted and fined €300 and ordered to hand over €500 compensation for passing two cheques that bounced at Ballinrobe District Court. Mark Keane pleaded guilty to the charges in court, in a case which his solicitor Cathy McDarby said had “no malice in it”.