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Just in case it did not have enough hotels, plans are now in place for the development of yet another hotel in Westport. Leading hotels in this tourist haven for County Mayo include the Castlecourt Hotel, the Westport Plaza, Hotel Westport, Knockranny House Hotel, the Westport Woods Hotel, the Mill Times Hotel, the Wyatt Hotel, the Clew Bay Hotel and the Atlantic Carlton Hotel. Now, as part of an ambitious masterplan, management at Westport House and Country Estate have announced their intention to develop a number of major new residential units including houses, apartments and a hotel, all still subject to planning but which if approved, are tipped to create 100 new jobs in the area in the distant future.

Retail traders failing to comply with consumer rights are being pursued with gusto by the National Consumer Agency which has just released its most recent data for prosecutions.

With uncertainty continuing about travel arrangements following the volcanic eruption in Iceland, it is important that people who are stranded abroad realise their rights.

The old time practice of watering down alcohol in a bid to make it go further is unfortunately alive and well in Kilkenny.

Sen Fidelma Healy Eames has hit out at the continuing high cost of energy, despite a massive drop in the cost of oil.

The price gap on a basket of groceries between the three big supermarkets is widening and the gap between their prices and Aldi and Lidl is narrowing, the latest price survey from the National Consumer Agency shows.

Property management companies are causing “an increasing level of frustration for new home-buyers” and legislation must be brought forward to solve this problem, according to Labour Cllr Billy Cameron.

The National Consumer Agency has put a call out to locate some 5,000 gas cookers which, in certain circumstances, can cause carbon monoxide poisoning if they are not used in accordance with the user instructions and the grill door is closed when the grill is in operation. There were 293 of these cookers sold in Mayo. For specified makes and models of gas cooker, with a separate oven and grill, operating the grill with the grill door closed can cause extremely dangerous levels of carbon monoxide to be produced, which can cause serious injury or death.

Elderly people, particularly those in isolated rural areas, are living in constant fear of attack and robbery because of a phenomenal growth in the number of totally unregulated cash for gold schemes, according to Kilkenny Fine Gael senator John Paul Phelan.