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The members of Ballina Town Council this month gave generously to two different voluntary bodies out of their contributions to other bodies funds. Outreach, which deals with mental health issues, and especially the issue of suicide, was given €1,500 worth of funding with Cllr Mary Kelly contributing €1,000 from her allocation for the year and Méara Peter Clarke contributing €500 from his.

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.

Ballina TD Dara Calleary has called on the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to look favourably upon a funding application from Belleek Woods Enhancement Committee, made under the Neighbourwood Scheme.

The members of Ballina Town Council have deferred the adoption of a draft anti-social behaviour strategy for another month to strengthen some of the items included in the plan.

How do you get to Ballina? It is a pretty simple thing for people who live in Mayo to direct you. But if you are a visitor travelling along the N17 into Claremorris along the main Galway to Sligo road, finding Ballina may not be that simple, it emerged this week. At the September meeting of Ballina Town Council, Fianna Fáil councillor Johnny O’Malley raised the issue of three signs for Ballina on the N17 which had disappeared, two of which have been replaced by directions to tourist attractions, The Museum of Country Life, Turlough House, and Ballintubber Abbey.

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.

Street lighting in Mayo has just been made better following the launch of a new interactive street lighting website, airtricitysolutions.com, which makes it easier for residents and business owners across Mayo to report a faulty street light.

Independent Ballina councillor Peter Clarke followed in the footsteps of his late father and grandfather when he took the mayor’s chain in Ballina Town Council on Wednesday night. Clarke who was first elected in 2004 took over the stewardship of the council from outgoing mayor Frances McAndrew after he was nominated unopposed for the position for the coming year.

Ballina town councillor Johnny O’Malley has asked for the town council to look into putting an amendment on the new social housing allocation scheme to stop people with antisocial behaviour orders being eligible for housing supplied by the council in the future.