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Last weekend while the men enjoyed the football, a group of women were tucked away in a hotel in Galway, following an intensive course in politics.

A Belmullet councillor has hit out this week at the operation of a speed limit van near Bangor Erris.

Sinn Féin has responded critically to Minister John Gormley’s announcement of the introduction of water charges to households in the near future. Belmullet Councillor Rose Conway-Walsh stressed the urgent need for the Government to abandon its plans to impose water charges on ordinary households and in particular their intention, unveiled by the Minister this week, to base the rates on the German model which charges its citizens more for water than any other country in the world.

“Law and order is on the verge of breaking down in the county,” according to Swinford councillor Joe Mellett, while Belmullet councillor Gerry Coyle said that “thugs should be put behind bars”. These were just some of the indignant comments made by councillors at Monday afternoon’s county council meeting after a motion was put forward by Fine Gael councillor Michael Burke for the council to call on the Minister for Justice to provide more gardaí in Mayo, to fight the ongoing crime and anti social behaviour.