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The Midlands Gateway Chamber announced this week that the principal after-dinner speaker at the Ambassadors Ball on May 8 is one of Ireland’s best know politicians, Charlie McCreevy.

There is a great sense of anger and outrage at the behaviour of the Government and the manner in which they are treating the weakest and the most vulnerable people in the community. This is the reaction of Labour Party candidates canvassing in the Castlebar electoral area.

At the February meeting of Mayo County Council, a proposal was made by the Fine Gael whip Councillor Paddy McGuinness and agreed by all parties that a meeting would be sought with the Minister for Finance to discuss the €8 million reduction in the 2009 road allocations for the county. Further to this, at the April meeting, the Cathaoirleach informed the members that the delegation would comprise representatives from each of the five counties in Connacht.

It looks as though we've all been saddled with a bill of €90 billion by the antics of the banks and the Liam Carrolls and Sean Dunnes of the property development world. I stayed in one of Mr Carroll's apartments down on the quays in Dublin a few years ago. At the time I wondered how anyone could spend more than a couple of nights in these shoeboxes. There wasn't space to swing even a very small cat in the rooms.

The economy is in recession and the banking system has failed, but the Government’s only solution is to “revive a model that has failed, rather than to totally reform the system”.

“We should be encouraging people to drink,” said Judge John Neilan ironically as he commented that people are celebrating all kinds of birthdays.

Mayo homeowners who run into problems with their mortgage repayments will have extra protection under measures committed under the Renewed Programme for Government, according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

A threat to the future of the North Western Regional Fisheries Board situated in Ballina has been highlighted by CEO of the board Vincent Roache.

Mayo homeowners who run into problems with their mortgage repayments will have extra protection under measures committed under the Renewed Programme for Government, according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

Remember the joke ‘What’s the difference between Iceland and Ireland? One letter and six months!’ Oh how Insider wishes that had been true.