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THE ORGANISERS of the fourth Annual Galway Comedy Festival, which runs from October 21 to 25, have pulled out all the stops to keep ticket prices affordable for Galway audiences this year.

In the year to September 2009 the average asking price for a four bedroom detached house in Mayo fell to €345,264, down 15.05 per cent from when the market was at its peak and down 4.74 per cent since September last year.

At Cummins Homevalue Claremorris customers can expect exceptional value for money with reductions of up to 50 per cent during the upcoming two week special promotion.

A large number of disgruntled and annoyed Galway GAA people mentioned one thing to me last Sunday and all this week. Some even took the time to email me and phone me to voice their displeasure about the €20 entry cost.And there was also much disquiet about the fact that the Luach for the Clár Oifigiúil was a saucy €5.

The Galway county final was on last Sunday in Tuam Stadium and it ended in a disappointing draw, Corofin 0-9 and Mountbellew/Moylough 0-9. The replay is on Sunday week. The standard of fare on offer was very poor and despite splendid weather conditions for football, none of the Mountbellew forwards could manage a single score from play in the entire 60 minutes and the Corofin forwards weren’t much better, hitting nine wides in the first half alone and only scoring 0-3 (1f) in the second.

On Saturday October 3 Balla Mart held its usual cattle sale. There were 1,000 cattle on offer in three rings. Trading prices were good and were on average similar to last week, with more farmers buying and the quality lots were improved.

Since January 2009 the Fibs for Phones campaign promoted by C&C Cellular and Midwest Radio has raised more than €163,000.

There was no shortage of people attending O’Donnellan & Joyce’s auction last Friday in the Victoria Hotel where buyers left the auction room with big smiles on their faces.

Members of the Mandate trade union who work in Boots stores across Ireland will be balloted for strike action the union has said. Boots have one store in Mayo in Westport at the Westpoint centre in the town and the union members will be balloted on Friday November 6.

Mayo county manager Des Mahon has urged the elected members of the Mayo County Council to take up the polluter pays principle as a political issue as the council tries to plan its investment programme for the next year. Mr Paddy Mahon, director of services for water, gave the elected members the list of programmes the council has earmarked as priorities for the council over the coming year. While each project listed is a priority, the big issue was the local contribution that had to be made towards the scheme under the polluter pays principle.