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The elected members of the Belmullet electoral area committee welcomed the news that the NRA have agreed to reduce the speed limit around Tiernaur village in Mulranny. The members were told that the NRA have given approval for the reduction and the council now had to enact bye-laws to bring them into action. The council has already written to the Garda for submissions on the issue, to which the Gardaí has 30 days to reply. The proposed bye-laws will then go on public display for 30 more days, and the public will have the opportunity to make submissions on it. Director of Services for the area Peter Hynes told the meeting: “Once all the steps are followed the issue will come before the members of the committee again for ratification before being put before the full council for the final vote.”

It was a tale of two electoral areas at the Belmullet electoral area meeting this week, with the new Newport harbour bye-laws being placed as an item on the agenda for the meeting of the north Mayo councillors. Following the redrawing of the electoral areas in Mayo prior to last June’s local elections, the village of Newport was spilt in two with the bridge being the dividing line between the Westport area and the newly extended Belmullet area.

Independent Councillor Michael Holmes has spoken out against the National Roads Authority for what he describes as “inefficient allocation of funding” in the upgrade of a section of the N59 road between Mulranny and Newport.

Like marathons, election campaigns are long journeys more often suited to the long distance runner then to the sprinter. As on all long journeys events can happen and change predictions that seemed definite at the outset, this is especially true when it’s a political journey. Bear that in mind as we begin the coverage of the local election campaign scheduled for next June. If Madame Editor allows, this scribe will return to my predictions when the ballots are cast and counted to see how wrong (or right!) I was!

For the second time in a little over a week a delegation of elected representatives from Mayo County Council made the long journey to Dublin to put forward the case for the county. This time the delegation were in Dublin to discuss the proposed new sewerage shceme for Belmullet town.

Mulranny Independent Councillor Michael Holmes has criticised the Government for cutting the National Roads Authority's budget for 2009 by €216 million.

“If you believe in something, I think you have to be able to speak on it and not being tied to a party line as an independent allows me to do that.”

Independent Councillor Michael Holmes has blamed the Department of the Environment for holding up the commencement of the Achill Sewerage Scheme because of its failure to repay €9 million to Mayo County Council.

Independent councillor Michael Holmes has hit out at the Minister for Agriculture, Brendan Smith, for the delay in making REPS 4 payments to farmers, stating that the hold-up was simply unacceptable. He said that many farmers submitted their completed application forms more than a year ago and still have not received payment. He also denounced the Minister’s current policy of ‘drip-feeding’ REPS 4 payments.

Libertas candidates will make defending Irish agriculture their “highest priority” if elected to the European Parliament, Declan Ganley and Raymond O’Malley told a crowd of over 100 people in Castlebar on Tuesday night.