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A Fianna Fail Mayo County Councillor who risked the lives of other motorists by driving dangerously on a twisted treacherous stretch of road has been fined a total of €800 and disqualified from driving.

More than 100 delegates gathered at The Merry Monk in Ballina on Monday night as local Minister of State Dara Calleary received the unanimous backing of the Fianna Fáil Tír Amhalgaidh (Ballina Area) Comhairle Cheantair to contest the forthcoming General Election.

County manager Peter Hynes said at Mayo County Council’s annual budget meeting this week that he would look into the cost of paying coroners in the county. His remarks were made in response to a call by Independent councillor Frank Durcan for an investigation into the cost involved. The Castlebar based councillor questioned the figures paid out to the different coroners and how there could be such wildly different numbers of inquests held in different areas of the county.

Fine Gael Ballina town councillor and Mayo county councillor Michelle Mulherin has welcomed the news that the lights which were vandalised at Canalside walk in the town have been repaired.

The Mayo branch of Sinn Féin held a protest at the intervention of the IMF and EU into Ireland’s finances on Tuesday evening. The sparsely attended protest, held in Market Square, Castlebar, was addressed by both Mayo county councillor Gerry Murray and Castlebar town councillor Therese Ruane.

Cór Mhaigh Eo (the Mayo county choir) is delighted to announce a return to its busy rehearsal schedule following an exciting break this summer spent in the Spanish pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostella, in the northwest of the country.

Up to 200 jobs are to be lost at Baxter in Castlebar after staff at the plant were called to a meeting on Wednesday where they were informed that 150 redundancies would be sought from the 1,100 permanent employees while 50 temporary positions are also to be cut at the plant.

Fáilte Ireland has announced the establishment of Fáilte West, its new tourism development forum for the region which met for its inaugural meeting in Galway last week.

Anyone watching the Killererin team bus pull up to the back gates of Pearse Stadium behind their Garda escort a good hour before the senior throw-in last Sunday afternoon knew they meant business. They were there to collect.

Mayo county councillors have expressed the need to support arts in the county during a meeting of the cultural, education, heritage and corporate Affairs SPC meeting on Wednesday.