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Castlebar structural design company SDS Ltd, won the prestigious LAMA (Local Authority Members’ Association) award for Best Architect at the Zurich sponsored awards.

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Michael Kitt TD officially opened the Mayo bundle No 1 Group Water Schemes Project this week and announced a further €12 million for the county for the upgrade of water schemes.

Current guidelines for planning permission for one-off housing must be amended, according to Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary.

The completed Multyfarnham Village Enhancement Project was launched on Monday this week by cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council, Cllr Joe Whelan, in the presence of Mullingar area members, county manager Danny McLoughlin, members of staff of Westmeath County Council, local dignitaries, and representatives of the local development and tidy towns committees.

The Government has been lashed over its handling of the Home Energy Saving Scheme. The broadside has come for the Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, who said details of the scheme should not have been announced until it was ready to be implemented. The green light for the scheme was given at the beginning of February but householders cannot apply until later this month.

MEP Sean O’Neachtain this week launched the 2009 Awareness Programme for Galway County Community and Voluntary Forum (GCCVF) stating that he felt an “immense pride” in acknowledging the success of the work of the Galway Forum.

Commissioning work has begun on the new €75m waste water treatment plant at Gorteens, Belview, Co Kilkenny which will cater for the needs of Waterford city and the city’s environs in south Kilkenny.

Ballina’s hub status, once viewed as a positive label for the town, is now working to the detriment of small local businesses and organisations with the loss of a potential €2 million funding for the town.

Ireland’s largest anti-litter initiative, the National Spring Clean, has started. Hundreds of volunteers from Westmeath have already signed up to take part in this years initiative with clean-ups currently being planned all over Westmeath.

Don’t you just love the sunshine? Everyone comes out to bask in the little heat we get. You hear more kids playing, see more people out walking, and spend more time out in the garden.