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A plan to re-open the Mayo-Galway railway line was warmly welcomed this week, however, a petition to turn it into a Greenway has also been lodged - on the basis the rail route could take years to materialise.

A number of tourism projects being managed by Mayo County Council are being progressed in the Castlebar Municipal District, according to the Tourism, Recreation & Amenity Section of the council, which has provided the following Tourism Update which will form part of the agenda of the Castlebar MD area meeting on Wednesday July 26 next.

Swinford Agricultural Show next month

Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh has said that homeless numbers remain high in Mayo, saying: "The latest report from the Department of Housing shows that in May there were 324 people homeless in the West which is a 4% increase on the previous month.

The matter of medical card patients in Mayo being unable to access dental services in the county was raised in the Dail on Wednesday of this week by Mayo TD Alan Dillon, who told Taoiseach Leo Varadkar during Questions to An Taoiseach: "There is a staggering average in the county of over 5,500 patients per dentist awaiting treatment under the DTSS. Dentists are overwhelmed, patients are travelling abroad, and this is all a serious concern for medical card holders in Mayo."

How were Mayo going to react after seeing a place in the last eight slip though their fingers in the final quarter against Cork a week earlier was the big question heading into Pearse Stadium last Sunday.