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The Education Working Group of Mayo County Development Board is hosting an ‘Education and Training Expo’ in The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar on Saturday June 16, which will feature a broad mix of educational providers in the county offering information on courses and training supports to suit people of all ages. Information on both accredited and non-accredited part-time, full-time and evening / weekend courses will be supplied.

A relaxation of the smoking ban in the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital in Galway has been agreed by members of HSE West following a call by chairman, Fine Gael Councillor Padraic Conneely, for more flexibility on the issue. At its May meeting this week councillors agreed that a designated area should be set aside for smokers, in place of the current protocol that obliges people to walk up to half a mile to a blue line at the hospital entrance.

Mayo County Council’s performance in collecting on rents, rates, and loans has been found to be below par in an audit just published by the Local Government Audit Service for the Department of the Environment.

Mayo County Council’s performance in collecting on rents, rates, and loans has been found to be below par in an audit just published by the Local Government Audit Service for the Department of the Environment.

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The ‘enormous potential of renewable energies to transform the economy of the Border, Midland and Western (BMW) Region’ was highlighted by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Pat Rabbitte in his address to the BMW Regional Assembly’s annual conference at the TF Royal Theatre, Castlebar, this week, which was attended by 170 delegates. Minister Rabbitte stated that the exploitation of wind and wave resources offered huge opportunities for regional development.

The BMW Regional Assembly is holding its annual conference on Monday April 30 in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar, commencing at 9.30am.

A huge investment of more than €1 million is being funded for an overseas joint tourism marketing campaign — the Western Region Tourism Marketing Programme— details of which were announced on Monday afternoon in Westport.

Mayo county manager, Peter Hynes, has called on people to pay the €100 household charge for the maintenance of essential public services.

Ireland’s oceans are an extraordinary natural resource with massive potential yet to be tapped, according to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney, who was speaking at a national marine economy conference held in Malahide, Co Dublin, on Tuesday last.