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County councillors have adopted a new speed limits, set down by the Road Traffic Special Speed Limit County Galway Bye-Laws 2014, to be introduced across the county from May 8 next.

Galway gardai attending scenes of accidents involving stray horses are currently being left to deal with the potentially dangerous animals without the services of specialised contractors, a meeting of the County Galway Joint Policing Committee was told this week.

Mayo Ideas Week 2012 was officially launched by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at Mount Falcon Hotel, Ballina, on Monday September 3. Mayo Ideas Week is a series of idea generation, entrepreneurship, and business events hosted by the development and enterprise support agencies in Mayo. Admission is free to the 13 events which will be held all over the county from Monday September 17 to Friday September 21.

There was shock and praise in equal measures at the end of Monday’s meeting of Athlone Town Council when town clerk John Walsh announced he had presided over his final council meeting.

Kilkenny was so close to scooping the top prize in last year’s Tidy Towns Competition that director of service at Kilkenny Borough Council John Mulholland has put out a plea to business owners and the general public to clean up their areas this month in a bid to grab the last all important points which would lead to the big win.

Pádraig Conneely was in no mood to hear City Hall officials claim they did a good job in responding to the water shortages experienced over Christmas, saying their explanations “would do Comical Ali proud”.

Further disruption is expected for local residents and businesses as works continue to be delayed on the Glasson-Ballykeeran-Coosan sewerage scheme.

“Biased, unhelpful”, “positively dangerous”, and “sinister” is how Independent Cllr Catherine Connolly has described recent remarks by Padraig O’Ceidigh, blaming city councillors for the lead water crisis.

Kilkenny Local Authorities is to lose one of its most popular officials at the end of November, when director of service, Tony Walsh is to leave his position following 10 years in his role at Kilkenny County Council.