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Allowing Bord Gáis to hike its gas and electricity costs by 1.47 per cent from next month will do nothing but heap more pressure on hard pressed families in Galway.

Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has said there must be a review of the role of the Energy Regulator to strengthen the protections in place for consumers in Mayo ahead of the sale of Bord Gáis Energy (BGE) next year. Deputy Calleary said the announcement that Bord Gáis Energy is to be sold to Centrica, which operates British Gas, will cause concern as prices have been increasing for consumers in the UK.

The Galway Patrician Musical Society will hold a ‘Monster Musical Raffle’ to raise funds for its 2014 show, The Producers.

Athenry is to be considered for connection to the natural gas grid after Bord Gais Networks and Gaslink carried out a study of towns not connected to the gas network.

Artistic and creative secondary school pupils across Ireland are being encouraged to get their hands on industrial, electrical, commercial, and domestic waste products and turn them into pieces of fashion art as the deadline for entries to the 2013 Junk Kouture Recycled Fashion competition in association with the European Recycling Platform (ERP) looms closer – January 31.

Westmeath local Mary O’Rourke was named as a winner at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2012 which took place on Thursday November 22.

Bankers behaving badly is a sore subject in the current economic climate but it is one which is only beginning to attract the literary attentions of novelists. One of the best such novels has just been published by the prize-winning London-based South African writer Justin Cartwright.

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 week in business started off badly for July as shock figures showed that 900 businesses throughout Ireland have ceased trading since the beginning of the year as a result of liquidations, examinerships, or receiverships. In addition up to 2,000 jobs are at risk at Eircom while an expert group has been commissioned to examine the value of all semi-state companies including the ESB and Bord Gais. Despite claims that the country is coming out of recession industries suffering with low consumer spending include retail, wholesale, hospitality, finance and construction. The effect is being felt in Mayo as a number of local companies feature on the latest list of businesses that have folded in recent weeks, some of which are detailed below.

Emergency services reacted quickly this week to close the old Dublin Road in Mullingar after contractors accidently severed a gas line on Monday morning, May 17.