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As the Local Elections 2009 get underway, the cracks are beginning to show. Despite ambiguous smiles and friendly banter, the Labour camp is falling apart at the seams. Old Labour is dead and gone; it's with Seamy on New Street.

Fine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny TD, has welcomed the move by Mayo County Council to invest €380,000 in improving accessibility throughout Castlebar. The money will fund the provision and improvement of pedestrian crossings, special paving, the removal of any significant obstructions on footpaths, and properly dropped kerbs.

A local councillor is appealing for the government to reinstate a polling booth in a Carlow townland, if they can even find it on the map.

Fine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny TD, has encouraged every person in Mayo who is eligible to vote to check if they are on the Register of Electors. In advance of every election, many people believe they are on the register, however, when they receive no polling card, they realise that they are not on the register and it may be too late to be added.

What they do in America, they sooner or later try here. The US presidential election some ‘town hall’ style debates between Barack Obama and John McCain - and now Fine Gael is going to try the format here.

Green Party councillor Malcolm Noonan has said that he believes that it is time for the party to reconsider its continuing participation in Government and he adds that he is taking time to reflect on his continued involvement in the party over coming weeks.

Local business man Rashid Butt of IT Zone is welcoming all locals to come into his cybercafe to register to vote in the 2009 Local Elections.

MEP for Kilkenny Liam Aylward has said that the perpetrators of the killing of two British soldiers must be brought to justice.

Beverley Flynn, Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo and member of the sub-committee on Ireland’s future in the EU, raised her concerns to Mr John Bruton about the development of a two-tiered approach to Europe following Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.