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An announcement this week that Údarás na Gaeltachta is to avoid making further funding commitments due to a shortfall in government funding has been met with fury by Westport TD Michael Ring who claims that 200 jobs are now in limbo because of the lack of funding.

Sixteen Mayo pharmacies which were incorrectly listed on the HSE website, as pharmacies that will continue to administer under the Community Drug Scheme from Saturday, shows the utter “incompetence” of the HSE according to one irate local pharmacist. The pharmacist, who did not want to be named, was included in this incorrect list and condemned this “incredible” error on the HSE’s behalf which is only “adding to the public’s confusion” about where they can avail of their community drugs scheme medication.

Two brothers and their cousin have appeared in court charged in connection with a Garda investigation into two assaults in Ballinrobe during which one man received serious head injuries and is being treated in Beaumont Hospital and two others were stabbed in the neck.

Potential third level students hoping to enrol for GMIT professional cookery or bar management course have been dealt a severe blow with the abolition of their maintenance grant, according to the Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring.

“Law and order is on the verge of breaking down in the county,” according to Swinford councillor Joe Mellett, while Belmullet councillor Gerry Coyle said that “thugs should be put behind bars”. These were just some of the indignant comments made by councillors at Monday afternoon’s county council meeting after a motion was put forward by Fine Gael councillor Michael Burke for the council to call on the Minister for Justice to provide more gardaí in Mayo, to fight the ongoing crime and anti social behaviour.

Mayo Deputy Michael Ring, Fine Gael spokesperson for community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs, has called on the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food and the Government to reintroduce some of the schemes cut back previously to help support Irish farmers.

Fine Gael community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs spokesperson Michael Ring has described the new National Drugs Strategy as “worryingly vague”, adding that the crisis in the public finances means that the strategy has to be built on clear actions that can be delivered despite budgetary constraints.

The Sweeneys from Boradruma, Castlebar, are one step ahead of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan — in the wake of his recent announcement that postcodes will be introduced to Ireland by 2011 — as the family have already been using their own postcode for years.

Mayo farmers will be out in force next Monday when they conduct a tractorcade through Castlebar to highlight Government cuts and the devastating impact that collapsing farm incomes have on the rural economy in Mayo.

It cost in excess of €4.25 million to run the WestDOC out-of-hours service last year, the Fine Gael spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, has discovered.