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Mayo local election candidate Andy Wilson has also put his name forward as a candidate Westport Town Council. Mr Wilson said he had originally not intended to stand in the town, but had been encouraged to do so by supporters.

Gardaí in Westport are investigating the death of a new born baby.

The sun basked in the sky as President McAleese arrived in Westport to celebrate the picturesque town’s achievement in last year’s Tidy Towns Awards. As the Presidential cavalcade drove into the Westport Leisure Centre, a sea of decorative caricatures, flag bearing children, and bystanders who were basking in the lovely weather, greeted Mary McAleese and her husband Martin.

TOP just launched its call for entries to its annual photography competition and is urging all budding photographers from Mayo to pick up their camera and start snapping.

Green Party candidate for Westport Town Council Fergus McAllister said that announcements this week of over 400 green jobs in the west should be a wake-up call to Westport that it must get serious about targeting green collar jobs if it wants to realistically overcome the present crisis and be competitive into the future.

The Imagined Community, an exhibition of drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Ross Cochrane, is currently at Custom House Studios, Westport, open every day until June 7.

Westport has secured an extra €100,000 from the Department of the Environment and Local Government to progress the eight outstanding recommendations of the EPA action plan. The funding was secured on foot of a recent EPA report regarding aluminium levels in the drinking water in Westport and Louisburgh.

Iompar Maigh Eo, a newly set up sustainable transport group for Mayo, is affiliated with the National Walking and Cycling Campaign (www.cycle.ie) and developing strategies on how simple improvements can be implemented to existing roads and public transport systems to provide locals, and tourists alike, with the option of using sustainable transport in Mayo.

Images of Mayo will be broadcast into one million homes across Australia later this year, after one of the country’s most popular travel programmes, Gurus Explore, filmed on location here over the weekend.

Fine Gael Councillor Myles Staunton accepted the chain of office on Monday night making him Westport’s new first citizen, with one of his first duties as Cathaoirleach asking that a 20 per cent deduction be made in the Cathaoirleach’s allowance as a symbol reflecting the current economic struggles. The councillor also noted a number of enterprising proposals which he hopes to implement during his term in office which will benefit the town of Westport.