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A fun family cycle day to fundraise for Ability West will take place on June 9.

This month sees the launch of a new annual fundraiser to help the Cystic Fibrosis West team to raise much-needed finance for a new specialised day care unit for people with cystic fibrosis in the west of Ireland.

Saturday March 18 will be the date for a unique new fundraiser to help the Cystic Fibrosis West team to raise much needed funds to provide new specialised day care unit for people with Cystic Fibrosis in the west of Ireland.

The Western Greenway, currently stretching 42km from Westport to Achill, has already generated a massive profit of €2 million in its first year, MEP Jim Higgins has asserted.

Achill Young Fine Gael is launching a campaign to improve public safety on the Great Western Greenway Route between Achill and Mulranny at Tonregee.

Back in 2007 Johnny Oosten came up with an idea. This idea centred primarily around creating awareness and raising vital funds for children with autism in Ireland by means of the Croagh Patrick Seven Day in a Row Challenge. Five years on he has certainly achieved that, having raised more than half a million euro (€534,000) for the cause. (www.croaghpatrickchallenge.com)

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.

Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has announced the sanctioning of €155,000 for a cycling and walking infrastructure on the Northern Greenway, a 2.3km walk and cycle route linking Westport town centre to Pinewoods.

Members of the Westport Electoral Area Committee this week expressed their concerns that works that are due to start in Kilbride and Knockbregga on the N59 Westport to Mulranny improvement scheme will have a negative impact on the Great Western Greenway into the summer season next year. The committee were given a presentation by Pat Staunton of the Mayo National Roads Design Office on the overall scheme which went to Part 8 Planning on August 30 last. Staunton told the members that the Knockbregga and Kilbride stretch was ready to proceed in the very near future, and that tenders were being opened this week by the council for that stretch of road, and a nine month period of works was planned as the improvements were put in place. He told the members that it was hoped to have the approval for that stretch at the November meeting of the committee, and then at the full council meeting that month, with works starting after that.

Westport Town Council, Mayo Sports Partnership and Westport Leisure Park are to host the inaugural Great Western Greenway 10K on Saturday September 24 as part of the annual Get Out There Festival in Westport.