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A Co Mayo woman, charged with 82 counts of stealing cash and forging cheques resulting in a city business suffering a loss worth thousands of euro, is due to be sent forward for trial.

The Highfield Park Residents Association and the Ballinfoile Community Gardens collected awards at the 2011 Pride of Place Awards Ceremony last week. Mr. Phil Hogan TD,Minister for the Environment, Community & Local Government presented the awards at the All-Island Pride of Place Gala Awards ceremony at the Amber Springs Hotel, Gorey, Co. Wexford.

With eight weeks to Christmas, it is now time to start preparing for the big day. With a little planning, Christmas doesn’t have to be stressful or costly. Whelehans Christmas Club can cut down costs and prevent the worry of what gifts to get family and friends.

The Athenry Chamber of Commerce is launching an Athenry Gift Voucher to support its Buy Local campaign.

An innovative approach to an allowance paid to parents to help meet their schoolgoing children’s needs would boost support for parents and save the State millions of euro, it was claimed this week.

Commenting on the mounting concerns that many families who have applied for the Back to School Allowance may have to wait until late October before receiving the grant, Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane said: “Children, regardless of their social or economic background, have the right to attend school in comfortable fitting clothing and in this time of economic hardship it is essential that hard pressed families are assisted in preparing their child for school. I am inundated with distressed parents, who cannot afford the costs of uniforms and books needed for their children to get to school. The current fiasco around the processing of the Back to School Allowance reflects a lack of planning and foresight on behalf of the Government. Personnel should have been in place to deal with the increased number of applications.

Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, that the first payments to farmers in AEOS 1 have been issued. Some 8,400 farmers who applied for AEOS by the closing date of May 17 last year have been approved into the scheme, and under EU rules administrative checks for all applicants had to be completed before the first payments could issue. The first tranche of payments has been issued and the remainder will be paid on an ongoing basis.

A new household charge announced by local Minister Phil Hogan is set to affect some 1.8 million households in the country with a number of exemptions for the lower paid.

The latest tax defaulters’ list published by Revenue (from the period of January 1 to March 31) show that a Castlebar man paid €1,487,742 as a settlement for the underdeclaration of income tax and VAT.

AS PART of a cunning plan to raise money for Comic Relief, local company Croi8 Productions is presenting the Irish stage premiere of classic TV comedy Blackadder at the Town Hall next week.