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The new Garda mobile safety cameras have been given a cautious welcome with local representatives urging the Government to ensure that it will not turn into a money-making exercise and to invest in the re-alignment of dangerous country roads.

The lack of taxi rank space in Castlebar is causing a number of operators of taxis into the town to face severe financial hardship according to one taxi driver who spoke to the Mayo Advertiser this week.

The issue surrounding the number of charitable collections in Westport was raised at a Joint Policing Committee Meeting on Monday as committee members were concerned that the elderly were intimidated into giving money to such collections.

There has been a decrease in crime committed in Westport over the past year, Superintendent Mick Murray revealed at the town’s Joint Policing Committee on Monday.

With the Junior Cert results due out next Wednesday and plans well under way for student celebrations, the joint policing committee in Mayo’s county town in association with Castlebar Town Mayor is working to ensure all partying is good clean fun.

Minister for Housing and Local Services at the Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, Michael Finneran, announced that funding of €26,479 is being allocated to Kilkenny County Council for 2010 to support the work of the Community and Voluntary Forum in Kilkenny.

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring proposed at the Westport Joint Policing Committee on Monday that the JPC should write to Minister Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in relation to the rent supplement scheme and recommend that the HSE will not provide rent supplement for people who are not on the local authority housing list or who have not had police checks.

Gardai have not confirmed that the pipe bomb, which was discovered in the town on Tuesday night, is related to ongoing feuds in the town.

Councillors expressed their concern over the fact that the law is not being enforced on Dominic Street, Stephen Street or Rioch Street in Kilkenny city as HGVs are still travelling the route although heavy goods vehicles are not permitted.

Councillor Catherine Connery has expressed outrage at the proposal to close eight Garda Stations in rural Kilkenny.