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The benefits of a career in the public service have been highlighted this week with the news that Mayo County Council and public service local providers around the county such as the HSE, are to commence providing apprenticeships in order for people to train in the various roles on offer as civil servants.

The benefits of a career in the public service have been highlighted this week with the news that Mayo County Council and public service local providers around the county such as the HSE, are to commence providing apprenticeships in order for people to train in the various roles on offer as civil servants.

A Mayo county councillor has highlighted some questionable accounting techniques being applied to car-parking income generated at Murrisk Car-park, where tens of thousands come to climb the pilgrimage mountain of Croagh Patrick every year - which includes payments towards salaries of council staff and random invoices that could come from previous years.

The final stages of judging for the 2022 IPB Pride of Place Competition in Mayo took place on yesterday, Thursday, August 4 and today Friday, August 5.

Westport Independent councillor Christy Hyland has been elected to serve as Cathaoirleach of the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District for the 2022/2023 term - taking over from outgoing Cathaoirleach, Westport Fianna Fail councillor Brendan Mulroy. The new Vice Cathaoirleach is Belmullet Fianna Fail councillor, Sean Carey.

A number of elected members of the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District have once again expressed their anger at the way that Mayo County Council had to hand back €2 million in funding for projects along the Clew Bay Greenway.

The elected members of the Westport-Belmullet Municipal District have given their go-ahead for a series of improvement works planned by the council for the town of Newport.

The need for CCTV in towns in the county was raised at two different municipal district monthly meetings this week. The issue of some CCTV cameras not operating in Westport was raised at the West Mayo Municipal District, while at the Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District, a call was made for the installation of CCTV in Claremorris town to curb anti-social behaviour.

The Westport Municipal District will hold a special stand-alone meeting in January to consider a report on the removal of funding for the Clew Bay Greenway by the Department of Rural and Community Development.

The absence of a report on the Tidy Towns result from the agenda of the November meeting of the West Mayo Municipal District, was highlighted by councillors in Westport at their monthly meeting this week.