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The heavy rainfall which has blighted east and south Galway, Clare, and Cork has inflicted damage that could cost between €500 million and €972 million, leading to EU funds being urgently sought.

Only one visit has been made by IDA investors to Mayo since November 2008.

FOR 28 years The Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of the divided Germany and a Europe, indeed world, divided along ideological, military, and economic lines.

October and November brought renewed hope to the property market in Galway. First time buyers were out in force with a volume of activity that had not been experienced in previous months.

While the State endured Brian Lenihan’s savage Budget yesterday, Galway will have to wait until tomorrow before the Galway City Council decides on its own budget for 2010.

Wednesday’s Budget shows that Fianna Fáil and the Greens have no belief in fairness and no compassion for the most vulnerable in Kilkenny and Irish society, according to Kilkenny Labour councillor Seán Ó hArgáin.

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Businesses around Westmeath are waiting with bated breath for the first indication of the commercial health of the county on Monday (December 21), when the county council meets to agree on a budget for 2010 at the annual estimates meeting.

Speaking on the Social Welfare Pensions Bill which would implement the Budget cuts, Fine Gael Longford/Westmeath Senator, Nicky McFadden, said the most vulnerable people in Ireland have been forced to take the hit while the administration costs of running the State remain untouched and social welfare fraud is also left unchecked.

It’s estimated that Westmeath county councillors will receive in the region of €100,000 in conference fees and expenses this year.