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A tractor driver from Castlebar has been banned from driving and fined €300 after he caused a seven-mile tailback on the Westport Road last June.

The elected members of Mayo County Council approved the raising of a €7.3 million loan to fund the purchase of a 17.5 per cent stake in Ireland West Airport Knock by seven local authorities (Mayo County Council, Sligo County Council, Roscommon County Council, Donegal County Council, Leitrim County Council, Galway County Council, and Galway City Council) in the region at their meeting on Monday. The funding will be used to try to secure the future of the airport which saw more than 700,000 passengers use the airport last year.

A fortnight after claiming a historic win in the Connacht Junior Cup, Westport will go looking to claim their second piece of silverware this season when they take on Ballinasloe in the final of the Cawley Cup this evening, Friday, April 17 in Galwegians home ground, Crowley Park at 6.30pm.

Plans for the progression of the controversial new Galway bypass will not be amended following a meeting held in Brussels earlier this week to thrash out the issue. Council planners and representatives from ARUP Consulting Engineers are adamant they will not return to the old Galway City Outer Bypass route.

Harry Smith’s wonderful new play The Cemetery Club opens on Friday in the Little Theatre.

AN ART trail, in and around the city’s ‘Latin Quarter’, opens tomorrow [April 16] to coincide with this month’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Breaffy schoolteacher Nuala Bourke has attracted plenty of compliments over the years for her long locks of natural, richly coloured, red hair.

Former All Black Mils Muliaina continues to be a part of the Connacht Rugby squad while released on bail without charge from South Wales Police.

Galway Science and Technology Forum, in partnership with NUI Galway, has invited TeenTech to Galway. TeenTech is an industry-led initiative that helps students understand how STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects are the pathway to tomorrow’s careers, and to give teenage inventors and innovators a head start.

The announcement on Wednesday of a €30,265,764 allocation for local authority housing needs in Mayo will see the new 20 unit project in Tubber Hill get started. Minister of State Michael Ring said after the announcement of the funding: “In Westport, 20 new housing units will be built and this will go a long way towards reducing the housing list in Westport. In Mayo, €30,265,764 has been allocated to the county council for local authority housing. It is estimated that this funding will meet 38 per cent of the housing need in Mayo. This is not even including the Housing Assistance Payment which will help to further reduce demand on our housing waiting list.”