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Further evidence of the rapid slowdown in local building activity emerged this week with the news that the number of planning permissions granted for new houses in the county has dropped by almost two thirds in the past year.

Figures released this week from the Central Statistics Office reveal that the total number of planning permissions granted in Mayo in the last quarter of 2009 fell by 81 — falling from 290 granted (during the same period in 2008) to 209.

Some 97 per cent of “urgent” patients are seen within 10 days at the symptomatic breast centre at University Hospital Galway.

An additional 610 people signed on the live register in January of this year bringing the total unemployed in Mayo to 13,346, 3,444 up on the same time last year.

Gardaí in Galway are encouraging a Polish teen who was viciously assaulted in Eyre Square last week to come forward in an effort to find his attackers.

Entrepreneurs, business owners and workers in Carlow-Kilkenny are losing out on significant tax savings according to new statistics just published by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office.

Local Sinn Fein councillor Paul Hogan has warned that Fianna Fail is in danger of reverting to its failed economic policies of the 1980s. Commenting on the Government’s announcement that it is to bring forward the 2009 Budget, Cllr Hogan said that the move is evidence of the extent of the current public finance crisis.

Dep Paul Connaughton has this week hit out at the news that the long-awaited jobs for Ballinasloe will not now come to the town following the suspension of the decentralisation programme in last week’s Budget.

It would appear that Galway city’s not so ‘deadly’ after all, as figures released this week by the Central Statistics Office show the city has the lowest death rate in the entire country.

There was on average one sex attack every 10 days in the Galway West Garda division during the last four years, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office.