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The European Union, and its lynchpin project, the euro, had a charmed existence in publicity terms during the worst of the Brexit years from 2016 to 2019.

O’Donnellan and Joyce recorded one of the largest one day sales when the company placed 57 properties up for sale by public auction in the Harbour Hotel, Galway, on Friday. The properties were located throughout the western region from Sligo to Clare. There was enormous interest not only locally but nationally too, with bidders from all over the country.

Billed as the biggest property auction ever held outside Dublin, O’Donnellan & Joyce’s all-day property auction certainly lived up to its title last week with €9m worth of property sales generated at the end of an intensive day of bidding in a packed Harbour Hotel. The auction also saw a visible increase in phone bidding with two overseas buyers fiercely competing for much sought after Galway city properties.

Vhi Healthcare paid out €26.8 million in claims for the healthcare needs of its customers in Mayo. The biggest spend involved claims for the treatment of cancer amounting to almost €4.6m, including just over €1m spent on claims for breast, bladder, and prostate malignancy. Orthopaedic procedures including replacement knee and hip joints, fractures, and back problems accounted for a further €4.2m of total spend, followed closely by heart and circulatory conditions which cost €3.2m to treat. Claims benefit of €1.45m was allocated to cover 750 claims for arthritis and rheumatism.

Three East Galway organisations will benefit from funding under the Government’s Programme of Grants for Community and Voluntary Organisations.

€160,000 has been raised for local groups by C&C Cellular, with management from Mid West Radio, in a recycling mobile phones campaign for defibrillators along with a recent Charity Ball held in Breaffy House Hotel last weekend.

Since January 2009 the Fibs for Phones campaign promoted by C&C Cellular and Midwest Radio has raised more than €163,000.

Fine Gael leader Dep Enda Kenny has welcomed the funding provided by the Department of Community, Rural, and Gaeltacht Affairs to Mayo during 2009. In total, €61,049 has been provided to 12 beneficiaries.

Allocations for the €1.13m collected from parking in Mullingar last year were shown to councillors this week (January 18), at the monthly meeting of the area committee, as well as as a €1.2m EU grant to promote cycling around the town.