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Westmeath County Council has been successful in securing an 80 per cent grant of €25,000 from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for the Mullingar Wellness Activity Route project.

Community nursing homes in the county could face closure if the warnings given by the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly come to fruition. Dr Reilly remarked earlier this week at a Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary party that cuts in the forthcoming budget could results in the closure of 40 nursing homes, the closing of 1,000 hospital beds, and the hotly debated issue of a €50 medical card charge.

People requesting the Galway County Council carry out road repairs are being told it will be after Christmas before the works are carried out, according to Independent councillor Jim Cuddy.

Claims that City Hall may need to go to the bank to borrow €5 million for the Seamus Quirke Road upgrade appear to be unfounded as no definite figure on any overrun for the project has been confirmed.

The stage is set for Connacht to welcome Heineken Cup rugby to Galway for the first time this weekend following a major revamp of The Sportsground on College Road.

The hopes of having Mayo linked up to the rest of the Western Rail Corridor in the near future were dealt a severe blow yesterday when the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform published the Government’s planned Infrastructure and Capital Investment programme from 2012 to 2016. Among the items mentioned in the publication was the Western Rail Corridor; the report states that the next phase of the corridor has been deferred for consideration in 2015 in advance of the next public capital programme.

Galway has emerged as a frontrunner in terms of its suitability for the introduction of a public bike scheme, similar to that already in action in Dublin, and which could see the setting up of 23 docking stations for 250 public bikes across the city at a estimated cost of €1.55 million.

The hugely successful Greenway got a massive boost this week with the announcement yesterday (Thursday) of a further €1.8 million investment. The funding under Fáilte Ireland's Tourism Capital Investment Programme, which was announced by Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism, and Sport Michael Ring, will see two further extensions to the Greenway project.

News that the boxing club in Ballinrobe could soon have a new home has been welcomed in the south Mayo area.

Three projects in Mayo have been awarded funding under the Smarter Travel Scheme as administered by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.