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Local Fianna Fáil Councillor Vinny McCormack is eager for Westmeath County Council to advance plans to erect solar lighting on the greenway in Moate and has identified this project as a key piece of infrastructure for the town.

The month of March imminently beckons and should the spring season progress with elevating temperatures and days which continue to lengthen, there are a swathe of vegetables which gardeners can contemplate sowing.

Lung screening should be added to Ireland’s list of cancer screening programmes to help save more lives, the Irish Cancer Society has urged.

Galway Atlantaquaria in Salthill, is appealing to local artists to submit ideas for work to be put on display in Ireland’s largest native species aquarium.

Mayor Colette Connolly says she is extremely disappointed and dismayed that 14 councillors opted to vote for Cllr Peter Keane’s motion to revoke a resolution made by the council in September.

Electrified motoring rose well last month. self-charging hybrids electric cars have outsold diesel in the January sales period. Hybrid electric car purchases grew strongly, largely driven by Toyota self-charging petrol hybrid models.

Nephin Energy, a leading domestic producer of natural gas and main stakeholder in the Corrib Gas Field in County Mayo, has donated €50,000 to the Society of St Vincent de Paul’s (SVP) West Region.

At the launch Kia boasted of the new model being a dedicated European version of their best-selling Kia Sportage.

Galway East Sinn Féin’s Louis O’Hara has welcomed An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse substitute consent (retrospective planning permission) for Derrybrien Windfarm. As well as the significant environmental damage caused, almost €17 million in public money has been lost in EU fines, and O’Hara argues that there must be accountability within the ESB for their handling of this case.

Fine Gael TD Ciaran Cannon has called on Eamon Ryan, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to immediately intervene in the ongoing saga of a wind farm development at Derrybrien, Co. Galway, on foot of Tuesday’s refusal by An Bord Pleanala to grant retrospective consent for the wind farm.