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After a very successful month Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde, Mayo Writer In Residence 2012 concludes the last week of his residency in Mayo. Over the course of the month Eoghan has worked with a wide variety of schools and groups across the county.

Cllr Harry Barrett has questioned the recent announcement of a €2 billion investment by NAMA, which has pledged to spend the money on a variety of building projects around the country. The Labour councillor wants to see funds from NAMA spread around the country and invested instead in agriculture, fish farming, and renewable energy projects in Mayo and not on derelict sites in urban areas.

The turnout in Mayo for polling on the Fiscal Compact Referendum was slow yesterday morning as drizzle replaced the sunshine the county had been used to in the previous week. However on Clare Island, where voting took place on Tuesday, the turnout was at 52 per cent according to the office of Fintan Murphy, the returning officer for Mayo.

This week (May 28 to June 4) is National Water Safety Awareness Week and as part of its awareness campaign, Mayo County Council, with the help of An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has issued an appeal to “leave those buoys alone”.

Mayo Fine Gael TD, John O’Mahony has been informed by Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn that four schools in Mayo – Richmond NS, Crossmolina; Behymore NS, Ballina; Lankill NS, Westport; and Ballyvary NS — are to start construction to replace the prefabs and build permanent accommodation.

New CSO statistics released in a report on the profile of older and younger people in Ireland show that the average age in Mayo according to the 2011 census is 38.6.

This year will see two Mayo based teams taking part in the An Post Rás for the first time. Castlebar Cycling Club first entered a team in the big race in 2009 and has competed in three instalments of the race since, and will be once again on the start line when the race gets under way on Sunday. This years Rás team is made up of brothers Patrick and Ciaran Clarke alongside Bernard Twomeny, Chris Coyle, and David Brennan.

Transition year and fifth year students in Mayo are in with a chance to win some top prizes in a school essay competition launched by the local heart and stroke charity Croí and Mayo PCCC, HSE West, as part of ‘Mayo Healthy Living Month’.

Bank of Ireland Castlebar is holding a Developing Local Enterprise in Mayo Evening on Monday May 21 next at the Harlequin Hotel Castlebar.

Mayo business representatives joined with dozens of other business community representatives in Dublin on Wednesday morning last calling for an emphatic Yes in the upcoming fiscal treaty.