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As the countdown begins for the annual Ballina Salmon Festival, July 10 to 19, the call is being issued for volunteers to get on board. Contact the festival office on Teeling Street, Ballina.

Ballina Town Council agreed to give Castlecourt residents’ association €3,300 under the capital assistance scheme for works in the estate at its monthly meeting this week. Town clerk Carmel Murphy told the meeting that the residents’ association had submitted an application under the scheme and fulfilled all the criteria required. The cost of the works that will be carried out by the association will total €6,600 with the rest of the money coming from the residents and prize money the residents won in the tidy towns competition.

The Ballina and Mayo North Garden and Flower Club is going on an outing to Glenveagh National Park on Sunday July 12 leaving the Merry Monk Ballina at 8am.

The members of Ballina Town Council gave a general welcome to the refurbishment works that will be carried out on Pearse Street in the town, but expressed some reservations in relation to the time scale of the project and the positioning of the taxi rank during and after the process. Town engineer Michael O’Grady told the elected members that the public consultation period of four weeks and the submission period of another two weeks had now passed and that two submissions were received. The submissions were from the Ballina Taxi Association in regard to the position of the taxi rank in the future and Ballina Chamber of Commerce. O’Grady told the members that while the rank will have to be temporarily moved during the refurbishment process, the taxi rank issue was not part of this current process but would have to be dealt with under town council bye laws.

Ballina Arts Centre will be the venue for a unique celebration of the life of singer, Delia Murphy on Thursday March 26, at 8pm. I’ll Live ‘til I Die: A celebration in story and song of the iconic Delia Murphy will be a night of stories and songs made famous by Delia. Presented by Aidan O’Hara (RTÉ’s Fáilte Isteach, and author of the popular biography on Delia I’ll Live ‘til I Die), the evening will feature songs such as ‘The Spinning Wheel’ and ‘If I were a Blackbird’, sung by Joyce O’Hara and accompanied by Aidan. Reading and commentary by Carmen Cullen niece of Delia Murphy, and author of poetry books and children’s dramatist, from her novel Two Sisters Singing, a family memoir with a fictional base inspired by the personality of her famous aunt. Delia Murphy (born February 16 1902 in Claremorris, Co. Mayo, died February 11 1971 in Dublin) was a world famous singer and collector of Irish ballads.

A man who knocked down a 91-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s and her daughter outside a shop in Ballina was before Ballina District Court on Tuesday for driving without reasonable consideration.

Terry Reilly, author of Dear Old Ballina and newly released A Rambling Tour Through Dear Old Ballina, will commence his Ballina Historical Walk Tours on Thursday July 16 at 7pm.

The car of a Westport woman which was crashed after her daughter allowed a friend to drive the car resulted in the disqualification of two 21-year-olds at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

During the Ballina area meeting councillors and the director of services, Paddy Mahon, made it clear that rumours circulating about the future of the Jackie Clarke Collection were unfounded and the message “loud and clear” was that the collection will remain in Ballina.

A woman from Ballina who claimed she asked a friend to dispose of her rubbish was convicted and fined €300 along with costs of €400, by Judge Mary Devins, at Ballina District Court this week.