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MEP Sean O’Neachtain this week launched the 2009 Awareness Programme for Galway County Community and Voluntary Forum (GCCVF) stating that he felt an “immense pride” in acknowledging the success of the work of the Galway Forum.

Roscommon County Development Board (CDB) is currently engaged in preparing a new tourism strategy for County Roscommon. As part of this process, extensive consultation is underway across County Roscommon both by means of one-to-one consultations as well as public workshops.

On Thursday June 25 a major event will be held in the Annebrooke Hotel in Mullingar in response to the rising unemployment issue in the county. Titled an Opportunity Day, this event is aimed at those who have lost jobs or at risk of losing jobs and who are considering their options.

The Fiontar Chomhraic Teo Fund, the €3 million investment fund established by the ESB following the closure of Bellacorick Power Station in 2005, is open for business with the first call for proposals for projects for the north Mayo area.

A Mayo county councillor has called on the judicial system to review its practice of approving free legal aid to drug dealers, often caught with drugs to the value of €10,000 and over.

Figures released by Mayo County Council under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that Mayo county councillors were paid out €836,212 from January to the end of June 2009, all relating to the six months pre-election. Independent Castlebar Councillor Frank Durcan who sought this information said that these figures are “immoral in the times that are in it”.