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Mullingar West Community Council, which represents 12 housing estates in the town, has threatened to report anyone who attempts to start a bonfire in these areas during Halloween to the authorities.

Welcome to the world of the quick fix. Something bugging you? Have you done wrong in your past? Well, fret no more because this is the week that the world is turning the clock back and crushing any skeletons you may have in your cupboards. Are you a bank executive? Have you frittered away millions and still expect to get paid a sweet bonus? Do not worry, we can wipe all that away from you. Are you a hurling team which hasn’t won a title in 20 years? Not a problem either folks. Just sign on the dotted line here and we can whisk you away to another province. Welcome to the era of the quick fix where if you don’t like it, you can get it fixed. With the internet buzzing with spam emails offering boob enhancements for women and endowments for men that would make an elephant blush in the shower room, this is the era of want it, must have it. Now. Even Halloween has been shafted this year and with the Budget on in two weeks, we can go straight to Christmas. Yes, it’s a choice of freedom or crucifixion, to quote the Life of Brian. And this in the era when the birds are falling out of the hedge funds with the hunger and the world has gone mad with the PDs close to death and Galway United simultaneously one game from Europe and one game from the First Division.

The Finbar Hoban Presents event kicked off last Saturday night week with local Castlebar group Inverter bringing their own style of covers from ‘Born To be Wild’ to ‘Play That Funky Music White Boy’. Second on the bill on the night were The Rumours , with their influences drawn from such legendary bands as The Jam, The Stranglers, and the band’s excellent single ‘Keep it Going’ kept the crowd wanting more!

A troublesome witch has cast a spell on Brigit’s Garden in Roscahill and has turned it into a Haunted House for Halloween, full of a magical mist where ghosts, ghouls and all manner of strange beasties lurk.

Louis le Brocquy exhibition for Ballina Arts Centre is delighted to present this exhibition of work by Louis le Brocquy selected works from the Niland Collection, on loan from The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo. This exhibition consists of a number of the lithograph brush drawings le Brocquy created as illustrations to Thomas Kinsella’s 1969 translation of the Irish legend, the Táin Bó Cuailgne (The Cattle Raid of Cooley), published by Dolmen Press.

Ballina Film Club’s autumn programme

Westmeath County Council has requested residents to consider alternative forms of celebration to the traditional bonfire, in the wake of residents of housing estates in Mullingar imposing a ban on bonfires to celebrate Hallowe’en.

CCTV cameras will be installed in Mullingar's Town Park, which recently witnessed a number of vandalism and antisocial behaviour incidents.

Christian Camp of the Arts will celebrate its annual Halloween Kids Fun Fest in Leisureland on Friday October 31.

The Galway Labour Party will hold a Race Night in The Westwood House Hotel this Saturday at 8.30pm to raise funds for next year’s local elections.