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Fears are mounting for the future of the Islandeady community as the preliminary design for the proposed N5 Westport to Turlough dual carriageway is now complete.

With four councillors from both county and town councils across the county running in the General Election today, the possibility exists that a vacancy will occur in one of the local authorities.

With a date for the General Election selected there will be much to discuss on Saturday Forum this week. The flagship, hour long, current affairs programme can be heard on CRC 102.9fm at 11.30am on January 29.

The elected members of Castlebar Town Council boosted the amount of funding allocated to amenity grants by 50 per cent at their budget meeting this week. The continuation of the grants was a major talking point among the members, who all agreed the €15,000 that had been allocated along with the €7,500 separate contribution to the FAI coaching officer had to be increased.

The idea of scrapping town councils and county development boards, and merging Mayo and Roscommon county councils into one administrative unit as proposed under the Local Government Efficiency Review Groups report was strongly rejected by the elected members of Mayo County Council this week.

Mayor of Castlebar and Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere has congratulated the Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny, for an outstanding 35 years representing the people of Mayo. Mr Kenny was elected to Dáil Éireann on 12 November 1975 when the first ever Mayo West by-election was held. Fine Gael party colleagues in Castlebar Town Council, Cllr Brendan Henaghan, Cllr Eugene McCormack, and Cllr Noreen Heston, also extended congratulations to Deputy Kenny.

The potential of establishing links with Universities outside of Ireland that teach Irish with a view to developing language study breaks was highlighted at a meeting of the Cultural, Education, Heritage and Corporate Affairs SPC of Mayo County Council this week.

Committee members of the cultural, education, heritage, and corporate affairs SPC have formulated a policy recommending Mayo County Council to link a number of different significant and important sites through road networks from various access points throughout the county.

Mayo county councillors have expressed the need to support arts in the county during a meeting of the cultural, education, heritage and corporate Affairs SPC meeting on Wednesday.

A major commemorative event which will take place in the Lahardane area in 2012 to commemorate the loss of 11 lives from the parish of Addergoole — all of whom perished on the Titanic — was given support by members of the cultural, education, heritage, and corporate affairs SPC.