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Hello to all the Athlone Advertiser readers. Well, we didn’t fare too well in the Aviva Stadium against the All Blacks last weekend. Nevertheless, it was a tough fight all round.

Fianna Fáil Deputy for Roscommon-Galway, Eugene Murphy, has expressed his frustration regarding what he sees as “blatant cloak and dagger tactics” surrounding the report from the Athlone Boundary Committee.

Thousands of undocumented Irish people living in the United States are facing a bigger threat to their futures from Ireland than any measures proposed by Donald Trump, a Galway TD has claimed.

Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Transport, Tourism and Sport, John O’Mahony, is calling on sports clubs and organisations to begin preparing the necessary paperwork for the Sports Capital Programme. The Mayo-based senator announced this week that the application process for the scheme would commence shortly.

Dep Lisa Chambers says she is unsurprised by the latest reports on broadband speeds, which have found that Mayo is one of the worst served counties in the country.

Fianna Fáil Deputy for Mayo Lisa Chambers has expressed her concern at a recent review carried out by the Higher Education Authority, published by The Irish Times, which found that six institutes of technology are “vulnerable” and face immediate sustainability challenges with the GMIT being one of them.

The Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, was on hand last week to help BT Ireland announce a record number of entries for the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, which takes place from January 11 to 14 next year. Some 2,090 project ideas were submitted by secondary students from 375 schools across the island, an increase of two per cent from the 2016 exhibition. Of the 550 projects shortlisted to compete at the exhibition, eight come from Mayo secondary schools, with a total of 18 students from four local schools heading to the RDS in January.

Sinn Féin Senator, Trevor Ó Clochartaigh is calling on both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice to reunite a Galway couple after a wrongful deportation was carried out by her department.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has been criticised for using legal technicalities to deprive a children’s cancer charity of a €300,000 donation made to it by another organisation.

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Flood Relief, Eugene Murphy, has given a cautious welcome to the recommendations of a new report, published by the Office of Public Works, to relocate families living in flood-prone areas.