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Ballina Electoral Area Committee members reacted with disgruntlement during their recent meeting, when it was announced that housing grants will no longer be approved.

The residents of Carracastle have been informed that Mayo County Council has no funds to allow Carracastle Group Water Scheme to progress, with Councillor Joe Mellett saying that this news is “not good enough” as a “proper water scheme which in conjunction with a new sewerage scheme is essential for the development of the village”.

Eight locations across the county, including the aforementioned dyke, will host just some of the 1,000 events taking place nationwide for Heritage Week between August 22-30.

Westport area councillors began the arduous task of ploughing through 34 submissions relating to the Westport Town and Environs Draft Development Plan 2009, of which the vast majority related to land zoning, during a special meeting of the electoral area on Monday.

Westmeath County Council went painlessly through its own Lisbon-like mini-trauma last week with its simple adoption of the highly uninteresting draft strategic policy committee (SPC) scheme operational guidelines.

At a four and a half hour meeting on Monday evening in which Westport town councillors continued their discussion on a draft town development plan, a debate on the listing of the Record of Protected Structures, in which an inventory of 150 additional structures were recommended by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, led to heated discussions as regards the inclusion of structures in Westport House and the Westport House Wall.

As voters head back to the polls today to have their second say on the Lisbon Treaty, it seems many have either binned their polling cards or never received them due to new procedures.

Rochfortbridge Community Hall was officially opened on Wednesday September 30 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, chairman of Westmeath County Council, and blessed by His Excellency Rev Michael Smith, Bishop of Meath, at a ceremony organised by the hall committee and attended by local community groups, public representatives, and officials.

Rochfortbridge Community Hall was officially opened on Wednesday September 30 by Cllr Fintan Cooney, chairman of Westmeath County Council, and blessed by His Excellency Rev Michael Smith, Bishop of Meath, at a ceremony organised by the hall committee and attended by local community groups, public representatives, and officials.

Independent Galway West TD Noel Grealish and Fianna Fáil Galway East TD Michael Kitt will meet Minister Gormley on Tuesday November 3 to convince him to give the go ahead to the Claregalway and Milltown sewerage schemes.