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The Galway Dive School and Galway Atlantaquaria clubs are set to play their part in the national Coca-Cola Clean Coast Week with a major clean up planned underwater and on land this weekend.

Minister for Housing and Local Services at the Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, Michael Finneran, announced that funding of €26,479 is being allocated to Kilkenny County Council for 2010 to support the work of the Community and Voluntary Forum in Kilkenny.

An end is in sight to the prolonged flooding difficulties that have been impacting on residents in the Roundfort and Hollymount areas, according to Minister for the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government John Gormley.

Government Minister John Gormley has extended warm congratulations to the people of Ballycroy and surrounding areas for their co-operation in bringing the new visitor centre to completion.

Galway City and County Councils are to get a helping hand in cleaning up litter black spots and tackling graffiti in key tourist areas during the summer months with more than €100,000 in Government funding being allocated.

A man who cleared scrub from his land in order to plant grass was before Ballinrobe District Court last week following a prosecution brought against him and the person who carried out the works, by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government.

Three quarters of the treated water in Tuam’s public supplies is being lost before it reaches the taps, according to a report published by Forfás this week.

Labour councillor Michael O’Brien has expressed concern about the escalation of the number of people on the housing waiting list in Kilkenny.

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

Following on from European Mobility Week which took place this week Mayo County Council with the support of the Department of Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, is introducing the provision of bicycle racks in Ballina, Castlebar, and Westport to promote the use of bicycles as a sustainable and environmentally friendly mode of transport. A pilot rural transport initiative will be introduced from November to February in isolated rural communities to local centres of population in the Belmullet/Achill areas, and there will also be a public awareness initiative promoting the proper use of pedestrian footpaths and disabled parking spaces in the county.