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Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has welcomed the publication of the final report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children. She said that the report presented an important opportunity to strengthen children’s rights in the State.

Next week’s monthly meeting of Castlebar Town Council will see two motions in relation to the regulation of head shops in the town put before the council. Both Sinn Féin Councillor Therese Ruane and Fine Gael Cllr Brendan Heneghan have put forward motions calling for the regulation of these shops.

A notice of motion which called on the council to condemn the HSE for cuts in its community services budget and do whatever necessary including street protests sparked controversy at the monthly meeting of Castlebar Town Council last week.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has called for an end to corruption and cronyism and the cosy relationships between governments and big business interests. “It is obvious, the ‘golden circle’ of the 1980s is alive and well in Irish politics and our reputation as a country is being damaged internationally,” Cllr Ruane commented.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has welcomed the unanimous backing of members of Castlebar Town Council for the ‘Communities Against Cuts’ campaign and the threatened closure of family resource centres and other community facilities in Mayo and throughout the country.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O'Mahony has called on Social Affairs Minister Mary Hanafin to provide emergency fuel allowance payments to vulnerable people suffering as a result of the bad weather.