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Local councillor Mick Dollard has said he believes Columb Barracks in Mullingar would be a more appropriate home for the 4th Western Brigade than its current headquarters in Athlone’s Custume Barracks.

In these difficult economic times, one investment that is definitely great value is to upgrade the insulation in your home. This ensures that you and yours have top range comfort and you are also minimising your energy usage and making big savings on energy costs.

Airtight Insulation, based in Ballinasloe, installs both open and closed-cell spray foam insulation products. Spray foam insulation provides a higher U-value than any other commonly used insulating product, helps air seal your home, creates a healthier living environment, is environmentally friendly, and can help reduce new construction and existing homes’ heating bills by as much as 50 per cent.

Local private and voluntary nursing homes are struggling under the weight of expenses as they attempt to comply with new standard regulations, a national representative group has claimed.

A new fund to assist public and private sector companies with their energy costs, as announced by Energy Minister Eamon Ryan this week, is to benefit a number of Mayo companies operating in the energy saving sector.

A Mayo lighting company has received a massive investment of €2.5 million from the ESB to help develop the company’s international profile and expand its customer base. SELC, which stands for superior electronic lighting controllers, is chaired and managed by award-winning entrepreneur Sean Noone who operates the business from a state-of-the-art purpose built high tech facility in the Udaras na Gaeltachta business park in Belmullet, where it currently employs 45 people.

Representatives and volunteers from the Castlebar Voluntary Social Services had plenty of reason to celebrate this week following the announcement that they were to receive €25,000 worth of funding from the Bord Gáis Energy Community Energy Fund.

The Vintners’ Federation of Ireland has slammed the proposed five per cent ESB rise estimated to cost businesses an extra €100 per month from next October, describing it as yet another hammer blow to small businesses.

McInerney Homes has been building homes for more than 100 years and has been building in Galway since 1965. Since this time McInerney Homes has built more than 3,000 homes in Galway city. The company’s reputation for building quality, affordable, homes can be recognised in the well established community of Renmore.

Amid rising energy costs, land and wind is a resource that most farmers still have in plentiful supply and no more so than in the western counties of Ireland. The opportunity is there now for farmers and rural home owners to grasp control of their electricity costs.