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The announcement that 80 refugees from Congo will be settling in Ireland next year has moved Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony and his party colleague Cllr John Cribbin to call for the Government to fulfil its promises to develop the infrastructure of Ballyhaunis to enable the town to deal with the hundreds of asylum seekers currently living in the town.

Like marathons, election campaigns are long journeys more often suited to the long distance runner then to the sprinter. As on all long journeys events can happen and change predictions that seemed definite at the outset, this is especially true when it’s a political journey. Bear that in mind as we begin the coverage of the local election campaign scheduled for next June. If Madame Editor allows, this scribe will return to my predictions when the ballots are cast and counted to see how wrong (or right!) I was!

Mayo’s two government TDs were labelled a “disgrace” by county councillors at a meeting of the Claremorris electoral area committee this week over the farming cutbacks announced in Budget 2009.

Community groups in Claremorris and surrounding areas have expressed their disappointment that the social and economic fund which is allocated by the local councillors each year has been pulled.

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The changeover in development plans for Mayo has led to one Ballyhaunis couple being refused planning permission by Mayo County Council and will have consequences for other farm families applying for planning permission in the county.

Residents in an estate in Castlebar are living in a constant state of fear and terror due to the behaviour of Traveller families residing there. But no one knows who is housing the trouble makers. The HSE has denied it is housing them and the chair of Mayo County Council’s housing SPC said the council wouldn’t house four or five Traveller families in one private estate, so the finger points at absentee landlords and developers who are otherwise finding it difficult to rent houses.

The first and second phases of the €1.5 million Tooraree housing scheme was officially launched by Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council Joe Mellett on Tuesday afternoon.

Members of the planning SPC at their meeting on Tuesday in Ballyhaunis were informed that as of May 2009, 54 affordable housing units are available for purchased in the county, with the majority of them available in the Castlebar electoral area.

Cut backs in funding to Mayo County Council are beginning to impact on the services being provided by the council, councillors in the Claremorris electoral area were told this week.