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Concerns have been expressed over the proposed new Garda station for Ballyvary which is not included on the current Garda priority list and will not go to construction in 2009.

Councillor Frank Chambers said that Mayo County Council and all elected members have failed Mayo in not preventing the continuing population decline in north Mayo and on the islands. The councillor’s outburst came during a meeting of the Planning and Economic Development SPC this week while discussing the Local Area, Town, and Village Plan.

A man who stole three bottles of wine from stores in Castlebar in October and November last year appeared before Castlebar District Court this week.

A woman was fined €650 for possession of a forged passport despite insisting that she did not know her uncle had fooled her and that the passport office at home in Zimbabwe, which has a 300,000 backlog, had run out of the proper paper.

While the Soldiers of Destiny in Mayo march towards their long awaited Nemesis this June those other political foot-soliders, the Blue Shirts may be marching towards a clash with hubris.

Fine Gael’s Deputy Michael Ring, spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs, has said the €35 million in savings brought about by the party’s Oireachtas reforms could be used for services like transport for hospital appointments, water and sewerage schemes, roads, etc. Dep Ring said the package included a reduction by eight of the number of junior ministers, cutting the number of joint Oireachtas committees by 10, ending the practice of paying fees to those holding positions on those committees, no ministerial pensions to be paid while the member is still serving in either house of the Oireachtas, direct elections for 20 of the Seanad seats, and extending the Dáil sitting week from three to four days.

The Irish Patents Office has announced details of its new Junior Inventor 2009 competition, which is aimed at primary school students and is being launched by the office to mark world intellectual property day, which falls on April 26. This year’s theme is the promotion of green innovation as the key to a secure future.

A woman whose case was adjourned from Mullingar to be heard in Tullamore has had it returned back to Mullingar.

A man charged with violent disorder arising out of the Mullingar riot last July has been granted bail by the High Court.

There are difficulties on the doorsteps for Fianna Fail councillors these days and I suppose this does not come as a surprise to readers, as there are many people out there with grievances against the party for the manner in which they are seen to have managed the economy.