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Tensions in north Mayo have escalated once again with eight arrests over the weekend and one on Tuesday when a large number of protesters gathered for the summer Rossport Peace Camp. With the Solitaire due to arrive back in Mayo waters in the next month, the Rossport Solidarity Camp has taken up residence in Glengad in a bid to build up the resistance to Shell over the coming weeks and months. Mary Sweeney of the Rossport Solidarity Camp said: “Resistance in Mayo is building again. We’re expecting many waterborne activists from across Europe to arrive over the following weeks. The Solitaire will leave Irish waters once again with no pipeline laid.”

IBEC West has released the preliminary findings of a new survey conducted across the region, which found that 80 per cent of CEOs from the west believe last year's Lisbon Treaty rejection damaged Ireland's international reputation. The survey also found that 100 per cent of the CEOs in the region surveyed believe that EU membership has been important to the success of Irish business.

Radisson Blu Hotels and Resorts fought off stiff competition to win the Hotel and Catering Review gold medal award for top hotel group at this year’s awards ceremony, held at a gala event in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel.

The Irish Business and Employers Confederation has warned that decisions taken by Mayo County Council in the 2010 local authority budgetary process will have critical significance on the ability of businesses to remain competitive and survive. That is according to IBEC West regional director John Brennan.

IBEC West, the group that represents business in the region, has said that Government must prioritise the protection of existing employment and stimulate job creation in the upcoming Budget, while remaining resolute in reining in the public finances. The west has an unemployment rate of 13.1 per cent, which makes job creation critical to the region.

Setting – and achieving – goals for 2010 will be the theme of a talk by former Ireland West Airport chief executive Robert Grealis, at the January meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club (MOCC).

Special needs projects, schools/after school programmes, youth clubs/awareness and development groups, and crèches are just some of the 61 Mayo projects that have applied for funding from the AIB Better Ireland Programme 2009/2010.