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Westport Film Club will show Everlasting Moments on Wednesday October 7 at 8.45pm in the Westport Cineplex as part of Westport Art Festival.

An exhibition of new works by Breda Burns, entitled 360° of the Reek, continues every day at Custom House Studios, The Quay, Westport, until May 10. Breda Burns is from Westport, inspired by a love of the place and people. Her dedication to the community has been marked by continued involvement with community and public art. She was a founding member of Westport Artist Studios group, and was active in the development of the Custom House Studios.

Gardaí are appealing to the public to assist in an incident which took place on Wednesday evening, December 16, around 7.20pm, when a man entered a shop in the Westport Quay area where he demanded cash and got away with a small amount of money.

During a recent economic stimulus workshop which was attended by Westport town councillors, a number of positive proposals were discussed in order to generate a boost to the locality during these bleak national economic times.

Fergus McAllister launched his election bid for Westport Town Council with a radical campaign to make Westport a digital and greentech hub which could generate hundreds of new jobs and help secure employment in existing service businesses. His campaign and manifesto were launched by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan, who is a strong advocator of the Smart Economy as Ireland’s surest way out of recession.

Ireland’s largest tourism trade fair, Meitheal, took place last week in Dublin with a record attendance of 281 overseas operators and 300 Irish companies including 13 from Mayo.

The pupils from the Quay School, Westport, would like to thank everyone who supported their annual Christmas play, Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

A staggering €785,000 was injected into the local economy of Westport over the last year according to Mayo liaison to the Irish Film Board and local election candidate Councillor Keith Martin.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn has confirmed that funding has been allocated by the Department of Education and Science for necessary roof works at Myna National School in Westport.