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Mr Michael Ring TD, the Minister for Rural and Community Development, today announced €45,856.43 in funding through the LEADER Programme to support four community initiatives in Mayo.

Fianna Fáil Cllr Al McDonnell has called for elected members to have some input into the drafting of development plans at an earlier stage than is allowed at present.

Mayo County Council confirmed last weekend it had reached an agreement to purchase Victoria House in Ballina - the family home of former president Mary Robinson.

Tuesday November 20, 1984, was a sad day in Galway. It was the day Jimmy Cranny died, and though he had no family, his extended family of many thousands of people he had taught to swim mourned him and marked the passing of a legend. He could be seen at the seashore virtually every evening of the summer for many, many, years teaching children the basics of swimming, and as some of them progressed to competitive swimming, he provided early morning training sessions for them at the canal on a daily basis.

The Government's unwillingness to introduce new enforcement rules on short-term letting and its willingness to be lobbied by Airbnb, shows it is "missing in action" when tackling "the multi-faceted aspects of the housing crisis".

Galway county councillors who oppose the Quiet Man Greenway should take up the advice to visit the Waterford Greenway and see its benefits to local communities, according to Minister for the Diaspora and International Development, Ciaran Cannon.

Galway city and county is set to get 125 new affordable homes, following Government funding of €5.8 million. The funding will see 95 of the houses built at Merlin Park, and the remaining 30 at Raheen, Athenry.

The hugely popular Athlone River Festival returns on Saturday August 31 and Sunday September 1.

Fianna Fail councillor Vinny McCormack has called on the Minister for Health Simon Harris to intervene and ensure that an improved GP service is put in place at Ballymore Health Centre as a matter of urgency. Cllr McCormack has made the call having received confirmation this week that the current GP operating joint clinics in Ballymore and Ballymahon has resigned from the service.

Mayo Sinn Féin Senator, Rose Conway-Walsh, has said that agency staff spending at Mayo University Hospital is out of control again for 2019 with €1.877 million spent in the first five months of the year.