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There are no “hidden bombs or traps” in the Lisbon Treaty, according to NUI Galway president Jim Browne who is urging the people of Galway to vote yes in the upcoming referendum.

€160,000 has been raised for local groups by C&C Cellular, with management from Mid West Radio, in a recycling mobile phones campaign for defibrillators along with a recent Charity Ball held in Breaffy House Hotel last weekend.

Now with an unbelievable price drop of up to €300,000, Árd Na Mhuilinn has to be the deal of the decade. The showhouse originally had an original asking price of €850,000, but that has now been reduced to an incredible €550,000 which includes everything in the fit out which cost in the region of €130,000. Other houses in the same development can now be bought for as little as €370,000.

Junior Cert results night celebrations will take place in the Royal Theatre Castlebar with special guests Industry on Wednesday September 9. Industry, Ireland’s brand new pop group, stormed the charts with their debut single ‘My Baby’s Waiting’ going straight in at number one. Industry are made up of Donal Skehan (Dublin), Morgan Deane (Cork), Michele McGrath (Dublin), and Lee Hutton (Chesterfield, UK)

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DB Cycles on Magazine Road, Athlone launched their new website this week, www.dbcycles.ie. The website carries extensive information on their bicycle collections for adults and children as well as information on the new government Bike to Work scheme.

Fiori di Zuca, which means pumpkin flowers, is a new venture from four women, three from Italy and one from Ireland. They describe it as a friendly and creative Italian café which is open seven days a week from 10am to 7pm. It is located at the end of Lower Dominick Street near the river and at the rear of the building that houses the new indoor market. Having chatted to Barbara and Roberta I think they may have just the right formula for the times we live in.

Irish neutrality will be protected and copperfastened by a Yes vote to Lisbon. Irish neutrality will be seriously undermined by a treaty bristling with military articles, so it is wiser to vote No.

At the September meeting of Athlone Town Council, Councillor Aengus O'Rourke asked the council executive to examine the cost implications for the council if it were to withdraw completely from providing a commercial and domestic waste collection service. At the meeting on Monday evening Cllr O’Rourke said, “This council currently provides a waste collection service to homes and businesses in the Athlone area at a significant loss to this council. The cost of running the service for 2009 will be approximately €813,000 and the projected income from the sale of the bin tags will be in the region of €500,000. The simple maths is that the council is set to lose in excess of €300,000 to operate the service.”

“Lisbon will worsen the economic crisis both in Ireland and throughout Europe” according to Sinn Fein Councillor Rose Conway-Walsh. “The threat to our economy is not in a rejection of Lisbon. It is in the ongoing privatisation policies of the government and the failure to properly invest in education, health, childcare, research and development and broadband.” Rectifying these failures will be all the more difficult if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, the councillor claims.