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Advertisements will be placed next week to invite applications from groups and organisations in the Ballina Municipal District to apply for funding from the district under its discretionary fund. A total of €494,175 will be made available from the fund this year.

For many people, those New Year’s resolutions to cut out smoking may be long forgotten by now but with Lent just starting it is another good reason to give quitting another go.

The price of an average three-bed semi in Mayo rose by 15.15 per cent in 2014, according to a national survey carried out by Real Estate Alliance. The Real Estate Alliance Average House Index concentrates on Ireland's typical stock home, the three-bed semi, giving an accurate picture of the property market in towns and cities countrywide.

The price of an average three-bed semi in Westmeath rose by 33.33 per cent in 2014, according to a national survey carried out by Real Estate Alliance.

The Galway City Council is to receive more than €3 million to invest in the city’s regional and local roads, with €1.5 million for upgrade works at Lough Atalia Bridge, leading a local senator to call for works to start ahead of the busy summer season.

This week saw the issuing of two major house price surveys with both the Daft.ie 2014 Year in Review House Price Report and the MyHome.ie Quarter Four Report on 2014. According to the Daft.ie report the average house price nationwide is €193,000 while the average house price in Mayo is €121,000. The four per cent increase recorded in Mayo in 2014 contrasts with a fall of 8 per cent a year ago. Average house prices in Mayo are still 54 per cent below their peak in 2007.

House prices in Mayo are four per cent higher than a year ago, according to a new report published today by property rental website Daft.ie.

Burgess of Athlone’s post-Christmas sale promises to be an event not to be missed offering exceptional value across the department store’s wide range of quality brands. The sale will begin on December 27 at 1pm with discounts across women’s wear labels including Gerry Weber, Betty Barclay, Libra, Darling, Planet and Précis; menswear labels Gant, Fred Perry, and Tommy Bowe footwear; homeware brands Stellar, Judge, and Denby; and children’s wear labels Blue Seven, Joules, and Mayoral.

The latest payments of €3.5 million made to beef and sheep farmers in Mayo last week under the Beef Genomics Scheme and Grassland Sheep Scheme brings the level of payments in the county in 2014 to almost €87 million.

O’Donnellan and Joyce’s final all-day property auction of the year on Friday December 12 saw property sales reach €6.2 million. Residential property sales in the afternoon reached €4.5 million, with many first time buyers in evidence around the auction room such was the value on offer. In the morning €1.7 million in property sales was reached with cash buyers and investors Christmas shopping ahead of the December 31 capital gains tax deadline.