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The freezing conditions that have beset the country have seen the cancellation of the first round of games in the Connacht FBD League this weekend. The Connacht council announced the decision on Wednesday saying: “Due to hazardous driving conditions and having checked the weather forecast for the weekend Connacht GAA Council has postponed the start of the FBD Insurance League until Sunday January 17.” Mayo were scheduled to open their FBD League campaign with a tie in Garrymore against the students from NUIG on Sunday, but all the ties have now been put back a week due to the snow and ice. Mayo will now start their campaign on Sunday week, and follow it up with a game at home to Sligo IT on Sunday January 24 in Charlestown, and wrap up the league stages on Sunday January 31 in Ballinlough against Roscommon. The home final for the league has been pencilled in for either Saturday February 20 or Sunday February 28, and the final against New York on Sunday October 10.

Mayo General Hospital was very busy over the Christmas period, with an increased number of people presenting with injuries resulting from slips and falls due to the severe weather conditions, many of which were serious and required surgery.

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It’s a bit cold out if you haven’t noticed. While we here in the west have been slipping and sliding our way around the county since the Christmas it seems those in government have finally noticed we may be having a bit of a problem. A snow storm in the Dublin area brought the capital to a standstill on Wednesday evening, with traffic backed up all around the city. So lo and behold, yesterday morning RTÉ reported on its website that a Government emergency response committee was meeting in Dublin to discuss the problems caused by the cold snap. So once again it took something to happen in the capital for the departments of transport, environment, health, education, and the Taoiseach to get together and have a chat about what’s going on around the country.

A lot of behind the scenes work among the elected members of Ballina Town Council over the past week saw the elected members and the Town Council management agree to a tiny reduction in the rate for 2010 at the annual budget meeting which was held in Ballina on Tuesday night.

The elected members of Ballina Town Council and the management executive of the council welcomed the striking of their annual budget this week, which saw no increase in the commercial rate for business in the town. Fine Gael councillor Mark Winters told the meeting, “We’re coming off the back of a very hard year for everyone and we have bucked the trend in not increasing the rates on the business people in the town. Everyone worked very hard and long on this budget, the increased efficiencies we have seen and the value for money we have been getting reflects very well on the council management. We’ve only had to increase the rate one year in the last five. We’ve also now started to make a serious push for Ballina to become the destination of choice and our allocation towards the marketing of the town can only lead to good things for the future.”

The hotel is the ideal location for a short break located just minutes from the town of Claremorris and offers pampering in beautiful surroundings to banish those winter blues.

The hotel is the ideal location for a short break located just minutes from the town of Claremorris and offers pampering in beautiful surroundings to banish those winter blues.

In a pre-Christmas visit to the Marble City, popular TV and radio presenter Ryan Tubridy hosted his morning radio programme from Kilkenny’s Regent House.

Despite getting a very prudent budget drafted and adopted, it was the state of rural roads that got the councillors in a flurry in the council chamber at the Budget meeting just before Christmas.