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Students at Athlone Institute of Technology have been speaking out about the difficulties they have been experiencing with the much criticised SUSI student grant application system.

Local TD Denis Naughten has described as “totally unacceptable” the situation where only 6 per cent of applications made through the new centralised SUSI online processing system for student grants have been approved.

Deputy Denis Naughten has congratulated the local committee for securing €190,000 of funding from Roscommon LEADER Partnership to develop a new Astro pitch for the Monksland/Bealnamullia community.

It will be at least September before a decision is made known on the level of relocation which will result from the recent downgrading of Custume Barracks in Athlone.

An investigation is continuing into an incident on Tuesday in which the new Air Corps air ambulance was forced to perform an emergency landing near Borrisoleigh, Co Tipperary.

A sum of €470,000 has been allocated to provide 20 kilometres of cycle lanes along the former N6 between Athlone and Ballinasloe.

A new air ambulance base is to be located at Custume Barracks, Athlone.

Almost 300 people attended a public information meeting held by local Deputy Denis Naughten in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on Tuesday evening to outline the issues surrounding septic tanks and the new regulations to be introduced.

Local Deputy Denis Naughten has arranged a public information meeting entitled ‘The truth about septic tank inspections’ to explain what the new septic tank proposals are about and what they mean for homeowners.

A protest is being organised from Mayo in relation to the new septic tank laws, which include the introduction of a registration fee. A bus will leave Belmullet to the National Septic Tank Rally on Wednesday February 29.