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A young mother of two from Moate who previously promised she would never rob again has been jailed for six months for shoplifting.

A survey is to commence in Ballinrobe town next week which will generate ideas on how to rejuvenate the town centre and make it a more attractive town to visit and shop.

A survey is to commence in Ballinrobe town next week which will generate ideas on how to rejuvenate the town centre and make it a more attractive town to visit and shop.

On Tuesday second generation Ballinrobe retailer Rob Murphy presented to the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, addressing the challenges town centres are facing due to restrictive parking regimes. Mr Murphy of Murphy’s Centra, Ballinrobe, spoke as part of a delegation from RGDATA, the representative association for independent family grocers.

Local business people are calling on the local authorities to save town centres in Mayo from desertion by allowing for leniency when it comes to car parking. Recommendations for such changes to restrictive parking regimes were outlined this week in the Retail Grocery Dairy and Allied Trades Association (RGDATA) report entitled A Nightmare on Every Street. The RGDATA is seeking new guidelines to end the parking policy inconsistencies of local authorities and help combat the pull of shoppers to out of town retail centres with free parking.