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The announcement this week that €20,370,746 has been granted to Mayo County Council under the 2010 Regional and Local Roads Programme, the third highest allocation in the country, which was welcomed by Mayo TDs Dara Calleary and Beverley Flynn, was described as a shortfall by the acting director of services with Mayo County Council, Michael Mongan, who outlined that in the past two years that this grant has seen a dramatic decrease.

An online petition with more than 40 signatures has called on Castlebar Town Council and Mayo County Council to provide a skate park for the young people of Castlebar. The organisers have pointed to the skate parks already in existence in other towns around the country. Councillor Harry Barrett has rowed in behind the campaign and is promising to bring the issue up at future town council meetings.

Following the announcement of almost €12 million roads funding for Mayo by the National Roads Authority, Mayo Fine Gael Deputy Michael Ring has criticised the allocation. The Westport deputy told the Mayo Advertiser: “What we need now is less spinning from the Government and more tar on the roads. We’ve had enough of it. The NRA funding has gone up by around €220,000 this year, but a lot of that is down to the N5 Bohola to Westport road.”

Fine Gael are predicting that Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government John Gormley’s interference in the newly adopted Mayo County Development Plan could lead to government instability.

Local Government is often the butt of many jokes: from the depiction of gombeen councillors in RTE’s Hall’s Pictorial Weekly through to Pat Shortt’s more recent comic creation of Councillor Maurice Hickey there has been quite a lot of comic material emanating from local council chambers.

Mayo County Council are inviting children and adults to join in and enjoy their free annual summer series of walks and talks on Clare Island and Mulranny beaches.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony is calling on Mayo County Council to ensure that hedges along national and secondary roads in the county are cut.

Ballina based Fianna Fáil Councillor Annie May Reape has urged organisations planning an anti-litter awareness project to apply for a Mayo County Council grant towards their campaign.

Mayo County Council’s Music Recording Assistance Award has shown once again the breadth and the quality of music in the county. From classical to rock, from jazz to trad, many forms of music were represented, and the high standard made very difficult work for the assessment panel.

The Castlebar Tidy Towns Committee welcomes the recent report of Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) which showed Castlebar achieved eighth place nationally out of the 55 towns surveyed.