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ILAM — the Irish leisure industry employers body which represents gyms, leisure centres, sports, fitness, aquatic and outdoor facilities, has announced that 85 leisure facilities from across Ireland have been awarded White Flags for the year 2011/2012. Those awarded in Mayo were: the leisure club at Breaffy House Resort (formerly Kingfisher Club Breaffy); Ocean Spirit Spa and Leisure Centre, Hotel Westport; The C Club, Castlecourt Hotel; and Westport Leisure Park.

Two Athlone leisure centres have been awarded this year’s White Flag Award at an awards ceremony held yesterday [Thursday] evening.

Speaking at the launch of the Mandate trade union campaign entitled ‘Respect Retail Workers’ in the TF Royal Hotel the vice chairman of the Consumers’ Association of Ireland, Castlebar councillor Michael Kilcoyne, said how pleased he was to be asked to launch the campaign. He said it was important that the public at large understood that frontline workers just carry out the policy of their employers in relation to how they treat their customers, and when consumers and members of the public have an issue in relation to the goods or services that they purchased, they should not let their anger or their frustration out on the worker.

Sometimes controversial, always outspoken and Castlebar’s most popular councillor Michael Kilcoyne will be the man behind the Mayoral chain in the county town for the coming year after he signed a pact with Fine Gael to ensure their control over the local authority following the local elections.