Both Castlebar Town Council and Mayo County Council paid tribute to the late Sean Smyth at their monthly meetings last week. Mr Smyth, who passed away recently, was a former Town Clerk of Castlebar Urban District Council from 1961 to 1968 as it was called at the time, and latterly the CEO of the Mayo County Enterprise Board from it’s inception in 1968 until his retirement in 1993.
Castlebar Town Council adjourned their monthly meeting as a mark of respect, with Cllr Frank Durcan telling the meeting, “He was one of the finest public servants ever in the country. He worked tirelessly for the people of Mayo and was responsible for most of the large industry we have in the county coming to Mayo during his tenure as CEO of the County Enterprise Board. You never heard a person say a bad word about him, that was the high regard he was held in”. Each of the other eight members of the council spoke glowingly of Mr Smyth’s work for Castlebar and Mayo, as did Town Manager Seamus Granahan who passed on his sympathies to the family on behalf of the council.
At this week’s Mayo County Council meeting, county secretary John Condon asked the members to pass a vote of sympathy to Mr Smyth’s family and to the Polish community on the death of their President last weekend. The vote was unanimously passed, with the council agreeing to adjourn their meeting early as a mark of respect to the late Mr Smyth.
