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Meridian Theatre Company, the company that brought last year’s sell-out Raccoon and The Exit Wound, makes a welcome return to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar with a double bill of fresh, vibrant, new theatre on Thursday January 22 at 8pm: a pair of roguish new comedies in the shape of Love, Peace & Robbery and Thailand: What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Open mic at the Linenhall; poetry, prose and more

“It’s time for the politicians to be honest with the people in the area, for example with the sewerage scheme in Belmullet. We have been promised this basic bit of infrastructure for years and when the money was there we didn’t get it. But now the promises will be trotted out again come the election about it, but even if there is funding for it there, because of the polluter pays principle there are businesses in Belmullet who are going to have to contribute millions towards it to get it going. It’s time our politicians were honest with the people about this.”

The parents of a young Mayo woman who tragically lost her life in a car crash were among a small deputation who travelled to Brussels recently with MEP Jim Higgins.

There are a few places in Mayo that no club like going to because they know it’s going to be very hard to come out of there with anything — McGovern Park in Newport is one of them.

Fresh traditional music at the Linenhall

It’s politics as usual for Fianna Fáil in Westport with the sudden renewed interest by Westport’s Fianna Fáil representatives in local issues such as the N5 and the promised, but not delivered schools, such as Westport’s Gaelscoil, has everything to do with the upcoming local elections and little to do with genuine efforts to actually do anything.

A Newport man on his way home from the mart, who according to Judge Mary Devins was only concerned with his own business on the roads rather than anybody else’s, was disqualified from driving after he caused a tail back of up to 20 cars behind the tractor he was driving.

More than €44,000 is to be spent in the provision of improving footpaths on Mill Street, Westport, under the 2009 roadworks scheme which was before members of the Westport Electoral Area committee at a meeting on Monday.

Newport Fianna Fáil councillor Frank Chambers has announced that he will not be contesting the forthcoming Mayo County Council elections on June 5, despite having received the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Westport electoral area. Cllr Chambers made the announcement at a meeting of the Michael Kilroy Fianna Fáil Cumann.