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A man who tried to force a kiss on a female colleague and made a number of inappropriate comments to her, was told in court this week (March 14) he had until the end of the month to come up with €3,000 in compensation for his victim or face a month in prison.

The elected members of Ballina Town Council on Wednesday night gave their permission for the council to dispose of 2.35 acres of land at Pearse Street/Humbert Street to Tesco for €3.43 million. The lands are located in the area where the existing Tesco store is located in the centre of the town, and it is planned that Tesco demolish the existing store and develop a whole new large store at this location. The total investment that Tesco will make in this project is estimated to be around €21 million. When completed the new store is expected to employ between 160 and 170 people, up from the 68 currently employed in the existing store. Some 300 car parking spaces both over and underground are also to be created as part of this development which will see an extra 180 to 190 car parking spaces being brought into the town centre of Ballina.

Ballina could very soon have its own tourism smart phone app to promote tourism in the town.

Kilkennyman, historian and former primary school teacher Jim Maher is proud to be launching his third book this month.

The members of Ballina Town Council this month gave generously to two different voluntary bodies out of their contributions to other bodies funds. Outreach, which deals with mental health issues, and especially the issue of suicide, was given €1,500 worth of funding with Cllr Mary Kelly contributing €1,000 from her allocation for the year and Méara Peter Clarke contributing €500 from his.

Ballina Town Council this week approved to have in place an overdraft facility to the value of €1 million for the council.

The members of Ballina Town Council have deferred the adoption of a draft anti-social behaviour strategy for another month to strengthen some of the items included in the plan.

Independent Ballina town councillor Mary Kelly this week hit out at “lobbyists having private meetings with council executives”, in the lead into the reversal of phase two of the Ballina traffic management plan.

In conjunction with the national food promoter - Bord Bia - Lough Owel organic farm and shop is to host an open day for members of the public on Thursday September 15 at 3pm as part of National Organic Week.

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