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The long running saga of the N26 linking Ballina to the N5 and beyond is set to run on for at least another year before a new preferred route for the road emerges. The item was up for discussion at the September meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area Committee this week where Tony McNulty, road design senior executive engineer with Mayo County Council, answered a number of questions from the elected councillors in the area.

Mayo County Council took the next step in the realisation of the long awaited Ballina Arts Centre when the elected members of the council approved registering a charge of €1.2 million against the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport this week.

The 2010 road works programme for the Ballina area was welcomed by the members of Ballina Town Council this week.

Ballina Town Council elected Fianna Fáil Cllr Johnnie O’Malley as the chairperson of the Joint Policing Committee in the town at their monthly meeting on Wednesday night for a period of two years after he defeated Fine Gael Cllr Mark Winters by a vote of five to four in the council chamber, with Cllr Winters elected in the vice chair position.

County manager Des Mahon this week urged the elected members of the Mayo County Council to sell the positives of the county rather than the negatives. Mr Mahon was speaking to the members on foot of a motion by Fine Gael’s Michelle Mulherin where she called for the major industries in Mayo to be afforded the opportunity to outline the problems that are affecting their growth due to inadequate infrastructure in Mayo.

Ballina Town Council has agreed to fund its share of an agreement among the three town councils in the county and Mayo County Council for the FAI development officer for the next year to the sum of €7,500.