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Fine Gael TD Michael Ring, has said this week that he will be putting the upgrade of the N5 front and centre if he gets re-elected next week. The Westport based TD was responding to comments from county engineer Joe Beirne at the February meeting of Mayo County Council this week where he said: “The prospects of any major road project in the county is now not good.” Beirne was speaking at the meeting where the councillors were discussing the road grants to the local authority from central Government for the coming year. The grants for national roads saw an increase of €7 million this year from the previous year, however the majority of the increase was to be spent on pavement improvements on the existing national road primary road structure and on national secondary roads. Mr Beirne told the meeting that while there was an increase in the overall grant there was no grant this year for the N26 scheme from Ballina and it has essentially been shelved for the year.

Water rationing similar to that in operation in parts of Dublin may be necessary to stem the flow in Mayo where demand for water in the county jumped by 21 per cent over the past few weeks.

Current Westport town manager Peter Hynes is to be appointed as the new county manager, replacing Des Mahon who retired from the post at the end of November last year. The Moycullen native, who lives in Foxford, will be put forward for ratification at the May monthly meeting of Mayo County Council. Mr Hynes currently combines the role of Westport town manager along with director of services for the Westport and Belmullet electoral areas and as director of services for the housing section of the council.

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County Engineer Joe Beirne warned the elected members of Mayo County Council that the there could be a scale back on the roadworks budget that was agreed by the council at their budget meeting. Beirne told the members that the council received a letter from the Department of Transport on February 26 which outlined that “The department is compiling data on existing contractual legal commitments on foot of regional and local road grants allocated to your authority, and potential new commitments to be entered into in 2009”. It went on to say that “New contractual commitments will now require prior approval by the Department of Finance. Accordingly, pending completion of the data by the department and securing the necessary Department of Finance sanction, no further contractual commitments on foot of regional and local road grants may be entered into by your authority”.

Mayo County Council’s government grants for the 2009 road work scheme were slashed in last week’s budget by €8 million, the Mayo Advertiser can reveal. This includes a €5.5 million reduction in the regional and local road restoration grant from €13.1 million to €7.6 million.

The members of Mayo County Council adopted the road works scheme for 2009 for the second time this year, when they approved the newly revised scheme for the year after over €8 million was cut from the Government funding for projects following the supplementary budget this year.

Road signs in Mayo which were incorrectly spelt are to be corrected following years of lobbying by Castlebar man Seán Ó Héalaí.

Claregalway residents are up in arms over serious flooding concerns that are not being addressed, according to Fianna Fáil election candidate, Malachy Noone.