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The never ending issue of pot holes in the roads around the county raised its head again this week at the September meeting of Ballina Electoral Area. Fine Gael councillor Eddie Staunton told the meeting this week, “potholes are my major problem, it’s getting worse and worse by the week. Is there anything that we can do, because we get some filled and then they are back again. It’s getting close to winter now and if we have one like the last two we’ll have serious problems.” Cllr Staunton’s issue was backed by his party colleague Cllr Jarlath Munnelly who said, “we need to have this sorted by now, because come November or December we won’t be able to get it sorted if the cold weather comes like we’ve seen before.”

Swinford Electoral Area committee Councillors have proposed that a right of access road off the N5 remain open, even though a safety audit recommended the closure of the road in order to enhance road safety.

The Swinford electoral area will receive €580,000 worth of the €3.5 million investment in Mayo roads that was announced last week. Paul Dolan of Mayo County Council told a meeting of the Swinford Electoral Area committee this week that two separate projects had been identified in the area. The two roads which will receive the funding are the R322 from Kiltimagh to Kilkelly, which will get €360,000 extra funding, and the L1907 from Urlar towards Kilmovee which has been allocated an extra €220,000.

Following a presentation from Mr Iarla Moran on Mayo County Council’s winter maintenance plan at this week’s Swinford Electoral Area meeting, a number of councillors called for grit to be deposited in strategic locations for local groups to use to grit local roads.

Fine Gael councillor Eugene Lavin this week bemoaned the delays that have beset the works on the Kiltimagh to Bohola road. The improvement project, which began 11 years ago, still has not been completed and, despite work being carried out on a stretch of it at present, the works will cease in the near future when the current funding allocation runs out.

The new senior executive roads engineer for the Swinford area was welcomed at the monthly meeting on Tuesday.

It was proposed at the Swinford Electoral Area meeting this week that bollards should be erected at Swinford church car park in order to prevent parking of vehicles other than private cars.

Catch the We Hate DJs experience in Massimos Bar this Saturday from 10pm. Expect a wide variety of electronic music including lots of left-field, electro, progressive house, techno and classics.

Ballina Town Council has confirmed a September starting date for new traffic plans for Ballina. Initially the town council and Mayo County Council hoped to begin the phased introduction of the proposals this summer, but a September starting date has been confirmed with all of the trial measures being introduced on a phased basis.