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The threat to the future of the North Western Regional Fisheries Board is real and one which should be campaigned vigourously against. Politicians in Mayo, especially those with influence at a national level, must step up to the plate now before decisions are made to scrap the Ballina office.

There has been much discussion and debate in recent weeks on the national airwaves about shopping local and the dash for the border by shoppers in the Republic. Minister Mary Coughlan has called on the public to spend their cash at home in a bid to save our own economy but other commentators feel she has no right to make such appeals when it is the Government’s fault there are such glaring anomalies between the prices of groceries North and South.

A strong contingent of Mullingar businesswomen will be among those at the National Women’s Enterprise Day at the Mullingar Park Hotel today (Friday).

Fianna Fáil TD and Minister for Labour Affairs Dara Calleary has confirmed that eligibility criteria for the Government’s Work Placement Programme is being relaxed from December.

Only one visit has been made by IDA investors to Mayo since November 2008.

There was good news on the jobs front this week with the announcement that StreamServe Inc, a leading provider of business communications solutions, is to set up its Irish operations in Galway thereby creating 20 jobs.

Insurance companies are “ripping people off” by “indiscriminately increasing premiums” for those who live in the vicinity of flooded areas.