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A smaller CCTV system than first proposed will be installed in Westport due to a lack of available funding.

Hot off the back of The Irish Times announcement that Westport has been named as The Best Place to Live in Ireland, 24-hours later the town was awarded with an all-Ireland title as the Best Kept Large Town at the Ireland’s Best Kept Town competition ; the awards of which were held in Belfast.

The new Cathaoirleach of Westport Town Council, Councillor Ollie Gannon, said that he looks forward to his new role with “enthusiasm and optimism”.

Councillor Christy Hyland asked whether there has been any progress on trying to allocate a drop-off point for school buses in the town.

Superintendent of Westport, Aidan Foley said that the closure of rural Garda stations in the area “will not have an impact on the level of policing.”

The cathaoirleach of Westport Town Council, Councillor Christy Hyland, members and management of Westport Town Council, would like to sincerely thank everybody who participated in the St Patrick’s Day Parade which was a tremendous success. Indeed the theme of the parade ‘Teamwork, Everyone’s a Winner’, in recognition of 2012 being designated as The International Year of The Co-operative, was really to the fore on the day.

Westport is on track to become a world class model of an ‘ideal town’ after winning yet another major award this week of €5 million, having been selected as the number one Small Town in Ireland in the Smarter Travel sustainable transport awards.

The rate for Westport town remains unchanged following the town’s budget meeting which took place last Thursday evening.

Following the “brilliant news” that Allergan is investing millions of euro in Westport, Cathaoirleach of Westport Town Council, Councillor Christy Hyland, said the town is “bucking the national trend”.

The new series of RTE’s Operation Transformation is once again joining forces with the Irish Sports Councils Sports Partnership network to encourage people to become more physically active in 2012. A series of walks, one in each county, will take place across the country on Saturday January 14.