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Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council, Councillor Michael Holmes, was on hand in the Holy Trinity Church, Westport, last Sunday to officially launch a music festival with a difference for Mayo this September.

Lovers of harmonies and the incredible instrument that is the human voice will find a musical Mecca in Westport Town Hall on Friday next (July 3) as Coda are to play their first concert there.

The popular traditional music and dance show, The Legend of Gráinne Mhaol, lifted anchor this week and sailed into its seventh summer season and a new home - at the newly renovated Westport Town Hall. 

St. Patrick’s Drama Group is kicking off a five-night run of a rip-roaring, three-act comedy, Pretend Sick, in Scoil Phadraig NS, Altamont Street, Westport, on Sunday, March 23.

South West Mayo Development Company chairman Michael Biggins has welcomed the announcement by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government Phil Hogan, that LEADER programme funding is to be released. The programme was embargoed since February 7 while Department officials conducted an audit of the level of project activity in all the local development companies. Reductions to the rate of co-funding meant that the original project allocations given to each local development company needed to be reduced.

Mayo TD and Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring has announced funding of €920,000 from Fáilte Ireland to develop Westport Town Hall in what he described as a breakthrough for the project.

A list of 20 Mayo road and sewerage projects previously announced but not yet completed, have been compiled by The Construction Industry Federation (CIF) which claims they could be advanced if the Government secures an EU stimulus package.

A local fundraising campaign in Westport to raise money for the Westport Town Hall is progressing well, with the project expected to go to tender in spring of this year.