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M&C Financial Services launched their full range of insurance products with a draw for free house insurance for a year. Roseanne Prendergast from Mayo Abbey was the lucky winner through the text message draw which was held recently.

After the justified hoopla from Ireland’s rugby grand slam and Bernard Dunne’s boxing heroics, all eyes will be focused on the forthcoming Budget on April 7.

Health conscious customers can enjoy delicious smoothies and juices, focused on low fat healthy options to fortify against illness and fatigue.

In the three-year period from 2006 to 2009 seven prospective investors have visited Mayo as a result of IDA representation while just one company has made a return visit in that same period. Deputy John O’Mahony has also learned that the potential investors represented the medical technologies, ICT, International Service and the pharmaceutical sector. To date, no investment has resulted from these visits.

Speaking at the launch of the Mandate trade union campaign entitled ‘Respect Retail Workers’ in the TF Royal Hotel the vice chairman of the Consumers’ Association of Ireland, Castlebar councillor Michael Kilcoyne, said how pleased he was to be asked to launch the campaign. He said it was important that the public at large understood that frontline workers just carry out the policy of their employers in relation to how they treat their customers, and when consumers and members of the public have an issue in relation to the goods or services that they purchased, they should not let their anger or their frustration out on the worker.

ISME, the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association has described this week’s Budget as savage and a missed opportunity, which will do nothing to stimulate enterprise or assist in maintaining employment.

Last week’s article looked at the sources of grant finance available to new and start-up enterprises. This week’s article will look at alternative sources of finance.

Is the Government really saying it is fair that people earning less than the minimum wage be asked to pay an income levy at the same rate as someone earning €50,000 per year?

Surely, one must have a degree of pity for poor Fianna Fáil councillors and candidates who will have to knock on doors and defend Tuesday’s Budget. Anger levels are already at breaking point and the Government’s decision to target parents rather than pensioners this time, will profoundly change the political landscape in Mayo for years to come.

House prices in Westmeath have fallen by over one fifth in the past year, according to the latest figures from property website Daft.ie.