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Remedial work on the three-year-old council houses in the Bun Daire estate in Kinnegad will cost Westmeath County Council in the region of €80,000.

As the 105th Battalion prepare to depart for peacekeeping duties in Lebanon, the future of Kilkenny’s James Stephens Barracks remains hanging in the balance.

A speeding issue which is plaguing road users in Ballinrobe and which hasn’t been tackled by Mayo County Council despite local representations, will be a local councillor’s number one priority for the 2012 road works programme.

There are up to 18 buildings in Ballinrobe town on the Derelict Sites register according to local councillor Damien Ryan.

Rural towns in Mayo are on their knees but none more so than those with pay and display parking bye-laws.

Mayo County Council received strong opposition this week to a proposal to reduce the sittings of the Claremorris electoral area committee meetings from every month to bi-monthly. One local councillor even went so far as to accuse the council of snubbing the area.

Local councillor Mick Dollard has said he believes Columb Barracks in Mullingar would be a more appropriate home for the 4th Western Brigade than its current headquarters in Athlone’s Custume Barracks.

The Neighbourhood Watch in Shantalla is set to be re-established, a move which has been warmly welcomed by local councillor Colette Connolly.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s commitment to his home town of Castlebar and County Mayo has been questioned by a local Fianna Fáil councillor leading to a war of words, and the threat of a punch up between two elected members of Castlebar town council, on the local airwaves.

A local councillor has come up with a novel idea to address the growing housing list in the Kilkenny area.