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The Galway County Council is to take part in a major initiative a review of how planning laws and policy are being implemented.

At a recent meeting of Athlone Area Committee Cllr Frankie Keena raised a motion for the council to provide dedicated cycling routes in Athlone plus bicycles for the public to rent.

Dublin City Council are not expected to make a final decision on proposals to extract water from the River Shannon until the latter part of 2009.

In Roy Foster’s impressive biography of WB Yeats* he tells an interesting anecdote concerning the sinking of the RMS Lusitania off the Cork coast on May 7 1915. The Galway writer Violet Martin (the second half of the caustic but amusing Sommerville and Ross duo), was walking by the sea near Castletownshend, Co Cork, when she saw the Lusitania pass in ‘beautiful weather’. Half and hour later, as the ship steamed passed the Old Head of Kinsale on her way to Liverpool, it was torpedoed by a German U-boat. Nearly 2,000 people perished.

It seems you can’t keep a good Dunne down.

Ireland has every possibility of getting back the 39 controversial paintings, willed to the Irish people by art collector Sir Hugh Lane at the beginning of the 20th century, but which remain in London because the codicil to his will was not witnessed. “Hugh Lane’s intentions were absolutely clear”, the dynamic director of the Hugh Lane (formerly Dublin City) Gallery, Ms Barbara Dawson said in Coole last weekend, “there is no reason on earth why the paintings are not on Irish soil permanently.”

It looks like a compromise might have been reached in the vexed question of pumping Shannon water to feed the projected Dublin deficit with the suggestion this week of a holding reservoir in Derrygreenagh bog, just outside Rochfortbridge.

One of the region’s best-known businessmen, Noel O’Gara from Ballinahown, was in the District Court in Athlone again this week (November 18) to face a number of charges relating to his alleged audit of a company or companies whilst disqualified from doing so.

I was all set to write my editorial on Dublin City Council this week. Ya know the story, they want our water, etc. But then two things happened.

I was all set to write my editorial on Dublin City Council this week. Ya know the story, they want our water, etc. But then two things happened.