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At next Monday’s Galway City Council meeting, Independent Cllr Donal Lyons will call for a “voluntary ban on all political posters in the city area for the forthcoming Local and European elections”.

Imagine being forced to flee from the place you call home in the knowledge that you will probably never return. Everything you know in life is ripped from under you. Your journey to your new ‘home’ is marred with violence, fear, and uncertainty.

There are lots of election issues to the fore this week and with the election so close now - is it any wonder!

Week II

The much-anticipated end of year student art and design Exhibition at Galway Technical Institute will take place today (Thursday) at 7pm. Students of the art portfolio preparation, furniture making and design, fashion design, and interior design further education courses will display their paintings, drawings, sculptures, furniture, garments, and interior design portfolios. The exhibition will showcase the creativity, talent, and innovative ideas for which GTI students are renowned.

This week designwest, an innovative graphic and web design company, celebrates its first year of business in the west of Ireland with the launch of a brand new and revamped website. The company, based in Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, has added a whole raft of new clients from all corners of the west and beyond to its already bristling portfolio which include advertising and web design work for Ireland West Airport Knock as well as work for its ongoing clients such as Midwest Radio, Diageo and Concorde Travel and also a number of small to medium size companies. designwest has now positioned itself as one of the leading graphic design agencies in the west of Ireland. Only seven months after its relocation from Dublin to Mayo, designwest was nominated for the Best New Business in the Mayo 2008 Business Awards.

World War 1 is the backdrop for the London box office success War Horse. It’s the story of bravery, loyalty and a mutual bond that grew between a young farm boy and his horse. But it is the highly imaginative and skilful way that the story is presented that has caught London’s imagination. The play is based on a book by Michael Morpurgo; and a recent acknowledgement by the public of the role animals have played in war, from the horse, the mule, the dog, the pigeon, even the humble glow worm used by sappers in No Man’s Land as they drew maps in the dark*. During the merciless, and relatively recent Battle of Stalingrad, (July 1942 to February 1943), 207,000 horses were killed on the German side alone (the human cost was an unimaginable one million). Animals are still used to help solders navigate rough terrain, or for dolphins to seek out mines, and dogs to sniff out contraband.

Westmeath County Council plans to issue a litter fine to a promoter advertising an event at one of its own sites.

The clean up of election posters around the county will be in full swing this morning, but two men who had no posters up at all in Castlebar will be sitting down at the council table for the new term.

In recent times, business success stories have been few and far between. However, a new Mayo-based signage company, Signwest, is bucking the trend. The creative signage company has already attracted a wide range of clients from all over the West. Even at this early stage Signwest’s management team is already considering expansion as a result of the positive response they have had so far.