Weekly news from around the 32 counties of Ireland

(Source: Mayo News)

 

OFFALY

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has complimented the winner of the prestigious James Dyson Award, which was presented to Tullamore student Noel Joyce at a function in the Court Hotel last Wednesday. 29 year old Carlow IT design student Noel, was presented with the James Dyson Best of Irish Design Award for his invention - a hydraulic wheelchair braking system, which is set to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of disabled people. Noel was presented with the award and a check for €2,500.

(Source: The Offaly Express)

 

ROSCOMMON

Roscommon County Council is paying way over the odds for rental accommodation and is merely operating a subsidization scheme for desperate landlords, it has been claimed. Last week Cllr Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan alleged that rents being paid to the 250 plus landlords on the scheme were way over the market value for their properties. Cllr Flanagan pointed out that he received three examples of houses rented under the scheme in the last week and he branded the prices being paid as “totally unrealistic”.

(Source: The Roscommon Herald)

 

SLIGO

Seventeen councilors voted at a meeting last Monday to a proposal that, in effect, hinders the Newbay Doherty Group from its plans to redevelop the Carraroe Retail Park that would create badly needed jobs and more choice for shoppers. Clr. Imelda Henry proposed that the council reject the County Manager's recommendation and leave the zoning for small goods in the Carraroe Retail Park at 20% and not change it to 30%. She said the Carraroe Retail Park was built "at a different time to what we live in now" and it was her opinion that it was "a bit too big."

(Source: The Sligo Champion)

 

TIPPERARY

As an announcement last week by Deputy Michael Lowry confirmed two million euro in funding for the provision of a new endoscopy unit at Nenagh General hospital, the chairman of Nenagh Hospital Action Committee, Christy Hartigan, warned against empty promises being peddled by politicians.

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