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The town of Ballinrobe was put through its paces on Wednesday last, August 6, when judges in the prestigious Pride of Place awards scheme came to visit – and the local organisers declared themselves ‘very happy’ with how the adjudication went.

Ballinrobe Community Development Council has arranged a presentation which will be given by Howley Hayes Architects, outlining the findings of their conservation and management plan for the Bower’s Walk in Ballinrobe. The presentation will take place on Tuesday June 11, at 7.30pm on the first floor of the Credit Union building on Main Street, Ballinrobe.

National Men’s Shed president John Evoy is to visit Castlebar on Thursday December 6, to meet the members of the Mayo Men’s Shed groups and hear of the progress of the Men’s Shed activity around the county. The gathering will be held in the GMIT at 8pm and a large attendance is expected from Ballina, Castlebar, Belmullet, and Ballinrobe groups

El Niño is the debut crime novel from Ballinrobe writer Mick Donnellan. Having had an immensely successful year in the theatre for 2011 and 2012, Donnellan’s artistic merits are now also being recognised in the fiction world.

Cllr Damien Ryan this week put forward a notice of motion calling for the council to provide information boards in the towns of Ballinrobe and Cong, so local voluntary groups could put up notices of events coming up in the area. The idea got the full backing of the other members of the council. Director of services for the area Seamus Granahan told the members it might be better to bring the idea to the relevant SPC first so that proper countywide guidelines could be drawn up to ensure such a service would not be abused by commercial interests.

Up to 1,600 people converged on Ballinrobe Racecourse on Monday last to attend the last race day of the season at what has become a hugely attractive venue.

Over 200 children with 50 adult supervisors camped out in Westport House over the beautiful sunny bank holiday weekend as part of the Mayo Scouts annual county outing.

West United sauntered to a facile victory over a hapless and heartless Ballinrobe Town side in South Park yesterday to advance to the fourth round of the Connacht Junior Cup.

Two Mayo First Active branches, in Ballina and Castlebar, are to be closed following the announcement this week that First Active and Ulster Bank are to merge. It is expected that up to 12 staff from the two branches will be redeployed to work in local Ulster Bank branches. There are six Ulster Banks in Mayo; in Castlebar, Ballina, Westport, Ballinrobe, Claremorris, and Ballyhaunis, but staff won’t know where they will be reassigned until a voluntary redundancy scheme has been completed.

A meeting last week between Bord Gáis, GMC Civil and Mechanical Engineering Ltd and local community and business representative in Ballinrobe, outlined details of the €4m construction project to bring natural gas to the town, with its arrival scheduled for autumn.