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With the ongoing survival of the Linenhall Arts Centre a matter of serious concern following major cuts to their funding over the past few years, two motions relating to the arts centre found their way on to the agenda for the April meeting of Castlebar Town Council.

Tempers frayed at a meeting of Castlebar Town Council this week during a discussion on the recent visit by two members of IDA management to the town which included a tour around the old Volex and APC plants, conducted in the company of Mayor Eugene McCormack and councillors Ger Deere and Brendan Heneghan.

Foróige leaders from Mayo have been honoured by President Michael D Higgins as part of the charity's 60th anniversary celebrations.

The first Castlebar Tidy Towns Good Friday clean up takes place on Friday April 6 from 10am until noon, assembling at SuperValu, Castlebar.

The first edition of Saturday Forum for 2012 will be broadcast live on CRC 102.9 fm on tomorrow Saturday January 14 at 11.30 am.

There has been widespread welcoming of the news that farmers will be allowed, as an exceptional measure, to spread slurry until the end of October this year.

The new regional VEC headquarters will be based in Castlebar serving Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim under a restructuring of VECs nationwide.

Michael Ring, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, has welcomed the announcement by his colleague Minister of State Alan Kelly that approval has been given for €116,000 in funding. This money will allow for the provision of some four kilometres of cycle lanes, 376 metres of footpaths, and 12 bike parking spaces in Castlebar.

Independent Castlebar town councillor Frank Durcan walked out at the start of a special meeting of the local authority after no prayer was said out loud this week. Only a matter of weeks ago at the May monthly meeting of the local authority, the members voted on a number of protocol issues for the council, one of those included the saying of a prayer before the meeting. At the May meeting the saying of either a Hail Mary or Our Father along with a Glory Be to the Father was passed by four votes to three in the chamber and the protocol arrangements were then passed fully at the ordinary June monthly meeting of the council.

Independent Castlebar town councillor Michael Kilcoyne said he was disappointed with the turn out of councillors for what he described as “one of the most important issues for this council to deal with” this week. The council this week held a special meeting to discuss and amend the Draft Anti Social Behaviour Strategy 2010-2014 for Castlebar. The meeting was attend by only five of the nine members for the majority of the meeting, with it taking place with only four members present for a period of time also. Those members present were Mayor Ger Deere, councillors Harry Barrett, Blackie Gavin, Therese Ruane, and Michael Kilcoyne. Independent councillor Frank Durcan left the meeting before it began in protest, after no prayer was said at its outset.