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Plans to double the size of Athlone over the next 15 years were advanced this week (September 27) after councillors voted to accept the manager’s plan for 302Ha (750 acres) at Creggan on the eastern edge of the town.

Local girl Hannah Kelly (21) from Shannonbridge, Ballinasloe was crowned the 2010 Carlton Shearwater Hotel Queen of the Fair in a glittering ceremony last week.

Moate councillors have joined forces in an effort to get the council to clean up the back road between the old railway station in Moate and the Ballymore road, which they are describing as a “dumping ground”.

The Ban Balfour Beatty Consortium has been chosen as the preferred tender for the Gort to Tuam PPP motorway. Construction will begin in the New Year for completion by the end of 2014.

While many businesses in the city centre are still reeling from the quick removal of sandwich boards and other signs, illegal billboards on the M6 Galway to Dublin motorway are now being targeted.

Galway County Council has announced a clampdown on unauthorised advertising structures that have been placed on private lands along the M6 Galway to Dublin motorway in the county.

Bus Éireann is to introduce a new high frequency Express service – the X20 - that provides the fastest coach service from Galway city to Dublin Airport.

Oranmore B&Bs, hotels and businesses are losing business because tourists cannot locate the town due to the complete absence of signage on the M6.

Where? Hodson Bay, Athlone, Co Roscommon

With the Galway Racing Festival soon to get under way Galway gardai have devised a strategic traffic plan to ease traffic congestion, and to direct festival goers to the racecourse as smoothly as possible. Access to the racecourse will be possible through three entrances, there will also be temporary road closures during Race Week. Traffic measure will be in place throughout the week long festival from Monday July 26 to Sunday August 1.