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Galway Chamber’s Traffic and Transport Forum under the chairmanship of Dr Chris Coughlan, met for the second full forum meeting last week and heard submissions from interested parties regarding the future of Galway’s transport infrastructure.

The elected members of Mayo County Council and the executive of the council will sit down today at 2pm, to try and thrash out the budget for the council for 2009. The council met for four hours on Monday and managed to get through only four of the programmes for consideration and no agreement was reached on the budget.

Sinn Féin local election candidate for the Piltown electoral area, Peadar de Bluit has responded to the revelations that HSE executive Brendan Drumm lobbied Health Minister Mary Harney for massive pay rises to attract senior executives from the private sector the sums paid out were “grotesque and driven by greed”.

A judge was left with no alternative but to jail a man with an intellectual disability for nearly two years after his behaviour escalated to aggravated trespass and carrying a knife.

The HSE West has been told it must deliver the same standard of efficiencies and care as it did last year, but by spending €30 million less. No mean feat one would say, but that has been the task given to the health authority in the west.

The delay in adopting a local area plan for Ballinrobe has thrown a number of local developments into jeopardy. It’s been 12 years since the current plan was adopted and the process of selecting a preferred route for the proposed Ballinrobe bypass has delayed the process of adopting a new plan.

A review of the introduction of parking charges in the city centre and suburbs will be undertaken by the executive of Kilkenny Borough Council in coming months according director of service Brian Tyrrell.

The Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Commerce John McGuinness has resigned his position along with his junior ministerial colleagues in a bid to create a more cost-effective Oireachtas during the recession.

Labour councillor Sean O’ hArgain called for the secret vote that is part of the standing orders governing the decision on honouring someone with Freedom of the city to be abolished.

The honourary freedom of Castlebar was bestowed on the town’s most loved public servant Johnny Mee last night (Thursday).