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The members of Ballina Town Council are still waiting to hear why road signs directing people to Ballina on the N17 outside Claremorris were removed and replaced with tourist destination signs. Fianna Fáil councillor Johnny O’Malley raised the issue again at Wednesday nights meeting of the local authority. “We asked that the county manager report to us what had happened to these signs and what was being done about it at the last meeting, what is the status of that?” asked Cllr O’Malley.

Ballina Town Council this week approved to have in place an overdraft facility to the value of €1 million for the council.

Taxi rank changes in county town

Independent Ballina town councillor Mary Kelly this week hit out at “lobbyists having private meetings with council executives”, in the lead into the reversal of phase two of the Ballina traffic management plan.

Westport area and town councillors have rejected a new core strategy as part of Westport’s development plan, even though the town manager Joe Beirne advised that they take on board variations to the town’s development and environs plan.

“While we were doing well business-wise in the town, we took our eye off the tourism industry a bit and other towns went with it. It’s something that we have to look at and work on this year.” Cllr Eugene McCormack who took over the stewardship of Castlebar Town Council when he was elected Mayor this week, wants to see Castlebar become a tourist Mecca. There is one project which is about to come on stream which he believes could provide the kick start to this tourism drive. “The river walk is the jewel in the crown, a fantastic job has been done so far there and when we get the new bridge to link it all together it will be a fantastic amenity to the people of the town and from elsewhere.” However the walk in its current guise is only a small part of a bigger walking attraction that McCormack hopes to see in the town. “There is a walking strategy for the county and as part of that, we’re looking to see the river walk extended out as far as Islandeady at one end and out to Turlough on the other. We also hope to see them all linked in with the Greenway which will link Westport to Achill in the future, this is sometime in the future, but it’s a plan that would be a huge attraction to the area.”

Castlebar Town Council received 49 submissions in relation to putting a bus stop in the town closer to Mayo General Hospital as part of their planned refurbishment works of the Mountain View area of the town.

Castlebar town manager Seamus Granahan told the June meeting of Castlebar Town Council there are a number of parking issues on the refurbished Main Street in the town still to be finalised in the coming weeks. He said he was looking at bringing draft bye laws in relation to taxi ranks before the members in the near future.

Recent resurfacing works carried out by Castlebar Town Council in the Pound Road and Churchview Villas area caused concern for members of the town council this week.

Independent councillor Michael Kilcoyne at the June meeting of Castlebar Town Council claimed that the rota for road sweeping in the town as advertised by the council is not being adhered to.