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An official code of conduct for city councillors, the breaching of which would leave them open to a new public complaints procedure, is needed if there is to be openness and accountability in City Hall.

Independent councillor Michael Holmes has hit out at the Government for its decision to slash the €200,000 it had allocated for upgrading the Castlebar to Belmullet road. The funding was granted in February of this year under the Strategic Regional and Roads Grant scheme. However the decision to cut it was announced only a matter of weeks later, in the 2009 Budget.

The people of Carnacon paid special tribute to retiring Councillors Paddy McGuinness and Johnny Mee at the Castlebar electoral area meeting held in the village last Friday night. The area meeting was moved out of the county town to pay tribute to the Carnacon ladies’ GAA team who captured their third All-Ireland senior football last year. Walter Hughes from the Carnacon Community Council welcomed the members to the village saying: “It’s a rare and unique achievement for a rural area to see All-Ireland titles come our way. We are delighted to have such an occasion to recognise the achievements and the honour the girls brought to the area.”

While welcoming a report on the disability strategic plan for Mayo County Council at their monthly meeting last week, a number of Ballina councillors raised concerns about the work being done outside public buildings in relation to disability issues in the town.

This week Insider proposes to reflect on the plethora of so-called Independents who are campaigning for your vote on June 5. Many of these ‘new Independents’ are former members of the Progressive Democrats whose two remaining TDs - Dep Noel Grealish and Health Minister Mary Harney - continue to support one of the most incompetent governments in the history of the State.

As it was the last meeting of the Westport Area Committee before election time, town manager Peter Hynes said that it was important to look back at the proactive work achieved by the area committee during the last five years, and highlighted some momentous achievements such as the: Westport Environs Plan; the Aughagower sewerage scheme; the car park at Silverstrand; the Louisburgh Playshcool; beach management and beach bye-laws; navigational aids at Clew Bay; the improvement of piers in the county; tourism projects—walks, cycleways; housing projects in Aughagower and Cushlough; the redevelopment of the old station in Newport; the scheme in Kilmeena; the development and the improvement of housing and roads in the area.

There are lots of election issues to the fore this week and with the election so close now - is it any wonder!

Two candidates in the forthcoming County Council election have roundly condemned the vandalism and destruction of public property occasioned by persons involved in defacing election posters and road signs outside Westport over the weekend. The graffiti, which appeared to have been designed to pit two of Westport’s popular town councillors against each other, has had the opposite effect with both Peter Flynn and Keith Martin coming together to remove the posters early Sunday morning and condemn the cowardly act which they believe to have been politically motivated.

The Ballymoneen Road is no wider that 12 feet in some places meaning two vehicles are barely able to pass each other while pedestrians risk their lives because there are no footpaths.

There was a great sense of camaraderie at the final meeting of the Claremorris electoral area where the four sitting councillors wished each other well in the forthcoming election.