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Westmeath communities are this week being encouraged to keep up the good work as the National Spring Clean campaign reaches the half way mark!

An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign, has begun and a huge number of groups from all over Ireland have clean-up events planned as part of the campaign.

The constituency of Longford-Westmeath celebrated its first seat in Cabinet in almost nine years this week when Deputy Willie Penrose received his seal of office from President Mary McAleese on Wednesday night (March 9) in Áras an Úchtaráin.

Two very dangerous junctions at Glenisland School, on the Belmullet Road out of Castlebar, are to be removed next year.

Minister of State Dara Calleary has confirmed that Mayo County Council has been granted an extra €296,000 to cover the exceptional costs associated with the recent severe weather conditions.

Minister of State Dara Calleary has confirmed that Mayo County Council has been granted an extra €296,000 to cover the exceptional costs associated with the recent severe weather conditions.

Rethink, remake, recycle, has announced details of this year’s Trash to Cash competition aimed at third level students to design a product or service using recyclables as the raw material. A Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government initiative, the rx3 Trash to Cash organisers want to hear from students from around the country and across all disciplines currently attending universities, institutes of technology, and any other third level course providers in the Republic of Ireland. There is an overall prize-fund of €3k that will be allocated to first, second, and third place winners.

Mayo County Council received an overwhelming response to the call for submissions for the public art programme Landmark in Castlebar. Seven artists have been selected for a range of artwork commissions which all focus on the Lough Lannagh area of Castlebar.

The first pre-election spat of the year in the council chamber saw a pragmatic, if somewhat irked, Cllr Aengus O’Rourke accept the unlikelihood of Fianna Fail returning to power after the next, soon-to-be-called, general election in a row over the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014.

No shooting or hunting of wildfowl including birds such as pheasants, snipe, and wood pigeon is to be carried out before Tuesday December 21 next at least, by order of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.