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THE AFRO Renaissance Annual Festival 2009 takes place on Saturday November 28 in the GAA Sports Complex Hall, Castlegar, Roscam, from 4pm to 10pm.

A new deal between Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology and Nanchang University, China, has been described as ‘momentous’. The strategic partnership agreement with the Chinese university, which is ranked as one of the top 100 universities in China, will have a huge impact for Castlebar and the entire region, according to Labour councillor Harry Barrett.

The elected members of Mayo County Council paid glowing tributes to departing county manager Des Mahon at his final meeting before he retired from his position. The Roscommon native who has held the position since July 1990 was given a standing ovation by those in the chamber when he spoke at the end of the meeting last Monday.

A former Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council has called on the Minister for the Environment to fill the position of county manager from within the ranks of the council. According to Councillor Joe Mellett this will save the council €100,000 annually.

Local groups benefit from grants

Castlebar Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere brought a motion calling on Castlebar Town Council to enact bye-laws that govern the size and scale of headstones in the new cemetery in the town to last week’s town council meeting. “This is an issue I’ve had a lot of representations about from people in the town,” Cllr Deere told the meeting. “They are concerned about the size of headstones that are going up in the cemetery and we need to preserve the dignity of the cemetery for everybody.”

Castlebar’s Lough Lannagh holiday village could become a mini-Trabolgan, according to Councillor Frank Durcan. Cllr Durcan put forward a motion calling on the council to upgrade the holiday village. Town manager Seamus Granahan said he would explore the possibilities of doing so, and congratulated the people who are currently running the facility on doing a good job, but warned that finances would be a stumbling block at this current time.

The planning and economic development SPC of Mayo County Council will have to keep a close eye on the new planning bill that is passing through the Oireachtas at the moment. The bill caused a lot of concern for the members of Mayo County Council at their monthly meeting the previous week when it was raised and the members of the SPC expressed similar concerns.

Fine Gael Councillor Patsy O’Brien has said that thousands of pupils have been forced out of the school transport system following the recent ticket price hikes at the beginning of September.

Business must be encouraged and the vulnerable protected so it is vital the refuse waiver is retained and commercial rates and city parking charges are not increased next year.