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Fresh from celebrating the election of Michelle Mulherin to the Dáil the members of the Ballina district of the Fine Gael party will have to get voting again very soon. Because of her election, the party now has vacancies to fill on both Mayo County Council and Ballina Town Council. Ordinarily a vacant seat is filled by co-opting a Fine Gael candidate who missed out on getting elected to the county council last time. However the Fine Gael vote managment in the 2009 local elections was so good that all their candidates in the Ballina electoral area were elected to the county council.

The idea of scrapping town councils and county development boards, and merging Mayo and Roscommon county councils into one administrative unit as proposed under the Local Government Efficiency Review Groups report was strongly rejected by the elected members of Mayo County Council this week.

The merger of a number of councils, including those of counties Carlow and Kilkenny, has been mooted in a new report on the efficiency of local government in Ireland.

Planning permission is to be sought by Westport Town Council for the provision of an enterprise centre to be located in the IDA Technology and Business Park in the town.

The upcoming Cathaoirleach awards are the perfect opportunity for community groups across the county to be celebrated.

The upcoming Cathaoirleach awards are the perfect opportunity for community groups across the county to be celebrated.

To pave the way for amenity works at the historical Rockies area in Westport, clearing of the burial site will commence in the coming weeks.

An increase in commercial rates in 2009 would have serious consequences for businesses already struggling with rising costs and decreasing turnovers, Athlone Chamber has warned.

Local Government is often the butt of many jokes: from the depiction of gombeen councillors in RTE’s Hall’s Pictorial Weekly through to Pat Shortt’s more recent comic creation of Councillor Maurice Hickey there has been quite a lot of comic material emanating from local council chambers.

RTE sports broadcaster Colm Murray is to be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Westmeath County Council Cathaoirleach’s Awards.