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A jubilant crowd welcomed home the Tidy Towns committee at the Wyatt Hotel, Westport on Tuesday evening after the town notched up an impressive victory at the annual Tidy Towns Awards which were held at a gala dinner on Monday night in Dublin. Not alone did the town scoop a hat-trick this decade (2001, 2006 and 2008) in being credited with being the tidiest town in Ireland, but they also received six other awards—Ireland's Tidiest Large Town, gold medal, regional award for the recycle initiative, the Le Gaeilge award, and a regional and county medal—with the win being even sweeter this year as it is the 50th anniversary of the Tidy Towns competition.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has said the Government policy on adults seeking to return to education was nonsensical. Noting that adults currently seeking to return to education must be six months out of work and in receipt of social welfare, Deputy O’Mahony said the announcement of 50 extra staff by the Social and Family Affairs Minister was a waste of money while this policy persisted.

Surgical and diagnostic breast cancer services at Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar will be transferred to Galway in a few weeks, a meeting of the HSE West forum were told this week. Initially the services were to be moved in September, then the HSE said it would be December but now confirmation has been given that Mayo patients will start attending the centre of excellence in Galway in a few weeks. However no definitive date has been given for the move.

The announcement that 80 refugees from Congo will be settling in Ireland next year has moved Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony and his party colleague Cllr John Cribbin to call for the Government to fulfil its promises to develop the infrastructure of Ballyhaunis to enable the town to deal with the hundreds of asylum seekers currently living in the town.

Mayo Fine Gael TD Michael Ring will not be actively seeking a European nomination but if asked to go for Europe by his party he will give it serious consideration.

A Mayo secondary school will lose five of its teachers, cease all extra-curricular sports activities and send children home from school if a teacher reports sick once the cutbacks announced in last week’s budget are enforced. Field work, which is compulsory for pupils studying certain Leaving Certificate subjects such as geography, biology, agricultural science, home economics and history, are also set to cease with immediate effect in the school.

The decision by Permanent TSB to close their agencies in Swinford, Ballyhaunis and Crossmolina is another body blow for small Mayo towns, said Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony is calling on people to shop in Mayo this Christmas and support Mayo employers and employees. In an attempt to create awareness of the importance of shopping locally, Deputy O’Mahony is making an appeal to shoppers to “stop and think” before they leave the county to do their seasonal shopping.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony is supporting the HSE “Keep Warm Keep Well” campaign which is aimed at ensuring that the elderly are warm and well this winter. The booklet, which is at the centre of the campaign, gives advice on how best to ensure that the elderly get through the winter season without suffering any serious setback.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has described the imminent establishment of a joint policing committee in Ballina as a hugely significant development for the town. A public meeting will be held in the town shortly at which details of the committee will be outlined.