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A proposal to develop an adventure hub for Achill Sound is being progressed by Comhlaht Forbartha Áitiúil (CFÁA) and includes plans for a tourism hub, a multi-purpose indoor training facility, a children’s play area, car park, retail outlet, café and audio visual facility.

The itinerary for the Achill delegation travelling to Cleveland on October 10 has been finalised and will see a roller-coaster six days, the pinnacle of which will be the Annual Mayo Cleveland Ball attended by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD.

A proposal to develop an adventure hub for Achill Sound is being progressed by Comhlaht Forbartha Áitiúil (CFÁA) and includes plans for a tourism hub, a multi-purpose indoor training facility, a children’s play area, car park, retail outlet, café and audio visual facility.

The itinerary for the Achill delegation travelling to Cleveland on October 10 has been finalised and will see a roller-coaster six days, the pinnacle of which will be the Annual Mayo Cleveland Ball attended by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD.

The Senior Traveller Training Centre in Castlebar is on the road to closure after an order to cut 18 student places from courses next September.

The sod was turned this week at the controversial Davitt College sports hall which has been 27 years in the waiting.

The Belmullet area saw the largest influx of new voters into the area following the redrawing of the boundaries last year. An extra 2,249 people were planted into the area from both the east and south of the old constituency. The decision to move Newport east from the Westport electoral area into Belmullet and its population of 1,021 was enough to see sitting Newport based Fianna Fáil councilor Frank Chambers decide not to run again, after seeing his home base split between two different electoral areas. While to the east of the old constituency, Ballycastle, Bunaveela, Kilfian west and Lacken north have been added from the old Ballina area.

The tricolour was held high in the Ruby Room of the TF Royal Theatre on Sunday after the last Belmullet electoral area seat was taken by Sinn Féin’s Rose Conway Walsh. This resulted in the loss of outgoing Fianna Fáil councillor Tim Quinn’s seat. He topped the polls in 2004 with first preference votes, while against the county trend Fine Gael failed to secure the three seats which it was contending.

Fine Gael’s decision to push through its four nominees to the VEC and not give the opposition members in the council a chance to put through one nominee led to bad feeling among the other councillors at the monthly meeting of the local authority.

Like marathons, election campaigns are long journeys more often suited to the long distance runner then to the sprinter. As on all long journeys events can happen and change predictions that seemed definite at the outset, this is especially true when it’s a political journey. Bear that in mind as we begin the coverage of the local election campaign scheduled for next June. If Madame Editor allows, this scribe will return to my predictions when the ballots are cast and counted to see how wrong (or right!) I was!