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Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has welcomed the backing of Castlebar Town Council for her motion tabled at the November meeting, that any councillors must car pool or use public transport when travelling to conferences. The Deputy Mayor is also calling for a freeze on councillors attending conferences in 2011 and for the savings to be allocated to the amenities budget to benefit community groups in the town.

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.

Sinn Fein has organised a mass rally for Dublin city centre on December 4 next in defence of low and middle income earners, of public services and the most vulnerable.

Noel Gibbons, road safety officer with Mayo County Council, has won the Road Safety Officer of the Year Award from the Road Safety Authority. At a presentation to mark the occasion by RSA chairman Gay Byrne at the RSA’s Leading Lights in Road Safety awards in Dublin Castle, Mr Gibbons was honoured for his work promoting road safety in Mayo through creative and informative road safety campaigns, and his ongoing efforts to support and complement the work of the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Síochána through national campaigns.

The bombshell that Mayo VEC is to be amalgamated with Sligo VEC as part of a radical plan agreed by the Cabinet this week to cut the number of VECs in the country by half down from 33 to 16, has left the education sector in Mayo reeling this week.

Any plans to cut Child Benefit in the December budget are being strongly opposed by children’s rights groups and public representatives.

Listeners were shocked and appalled when a Labour delegate was interviewed sounding tired and hoarse on Morning Ireland last week.

Sinn Féin Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness discussed a wide range of issues with business, trade union and community leaders during a visit to Kilkenny and the South-east on Saturday last.Mr McGuinness was on a whistlestop tour of Waterford City, Carlow and Kilkenny City.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has warned that electricity bills face a double whammy as a separate price review is due in September on top of the €156 million levy due to be imposed in October to subsidise peat and renewable energy generators.