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There will be no reduction to the Local Property Tax rate in Galway city or county next year. At the September monthly meeting of Galway County Council, local representatives voted to keep the property tax rate unchanged while city councillors passed a similar motion at their meeting a fortnight ago.

Supermac’s founder Pat McDonagh has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the board of Ireland’s Forecourt and Convenience Retailer Awards. 

Local home care provider, Home Instead Senior Care, was named Franchise of the Year (Service) at the 2015 Irish Franchise Awards.

Westmeath Sports Partnership has announced details of the Club Grant Scheme for 2015. 

A study conducted by Michelin has found that Irish motorists could be needlessly wasting more than €18 million a year on fuel and putting lives at risk by driving on dangerously underinflated tyres, if figures drawn from a UK-wide study were applied here.

The new SuperValu store on the Ballymahon Road, Athlone, officially opened last week creating 55 new jobs in the locality.

St Kieran’s Community Centre has been awarded €19,000 in funding by the Government as part of a national initiative to support community centres and non-profit companies.

Direct2uretail is an Irish company that supplys retail and wholesale Vaping products to the Irish Market. Including starter kits, batteries, atomizers and the Irish produced Wicked E-juice and Firebird Brands .

According to an analysis of Irish Life’s personal pension customers, people in Mayo are saving 19 per cent less into their pensions than Irish Life’s national average. The average monthly pension contribution by those living in County Mayo is €279 compared to Irish Life’s national monthly average of €343. On average women in Mayo pay €278 a month, and men pay €280 a month. Only 31 per cent of Irish Life’s pension customers from Mayo are female, compared to 69 per cent male customers.

The average rent for all dwellings in the private rented sector in  Mayo in quarter two of 2015, and which were registered with the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB), was €514. This was up €3 when compared to the average rent in quarter one when the amount was €511, and was up €8 when compared to a year earlier, in quarter two last year.