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Smart Travel Castlebar, (formerly Iompar Castlebar) has a new name and logo following a very successful competition with transition year students from secondary schools in the town. A large number of entries were received and Smart Travel Castlebar, a group promoting sustainable travel in Castlebar, is delighted with its new name and logo.

Sinn Fein has organised a mass rally for Dublin city centre on December 4 next in defence of low and middle income earners, of public services and the most vulnerable.

The 50 cent prescription charge introduced for medical card holders last week has been roundly condemned by public representatives in Mayo.

European Mobility Week takes place from September 16 to 22 and Castlebar will help celebrate this with a number of events and initiatives taking place in the town.

Responding to the recent revelation by the Department of Social Protection that almost 3,000 public sector workers are dependent on Family Income Supplement, Sinn Féin Cllr Thérèse Ruane, has warned that Irish society is becoming more polarised and unequal by the day. She also recommends that people check out their eligibility for family income support top-up payments as more than €100,000 remains unclaimed.

The three-month Dáil recess at a time when unemployment is soaring has been described as shameful and completely unacceptable by a local councillor.

A 15-year-old old boy who was about to enter into the prime of his life was savagely murdered in Dublin last week on the one day which is referred to as good — Good Friday. Racist motives are suspected in the stabbing of Toyosi Shittabey, a well-respected Nigerian boy, who was a promising young football star with Shelbourne FC, and who had been living in Ireland for the past 11 years with his family. His tragic death, along with an eye-opening report issued by the Teachers’ Union of Ireland this week, which showed that almost half of members surveyed had shockingly witnessed racial incidents in schools/colleges in the past month, is sending out a stark signal that it racial policy and cultural cohesion is a vital necessity for Ireland in 2010, with education key in implementing such integration.

Iompar Castlebar has welcomed the announcement by Mayo County Council this week that it is now implementing the Bike to Work Scheme.

Sinn Féin EU candidate Pádraig MacLochlainn has welcomed the unanimous backing of Castlebar Town Council for the ground breaking report entitled Awakening the West: Overcoming Social and Economic Inequality. This report, the first of its kind in decades, was pioneered by Sinn Féin Senator Pearse Doherty and Pádraig MacLochlainn in an effort to bring together the voices of all the disparate groups across the west of Ireland and unite them in one voice. It was compiled after a major consultation process with community groups, local businesses, chambers of commerce, and councils all along the western seaboard.