Music lovers? Then head to the Feakle Traditional Music Festival

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

From Wednesday August 5 to Tuesday August 11, the Feakle Traditional Music Festival will celebrate its 22nd year with a vibrant programme of traditional music, song, and dance.

Embracing our culture through the use of Irish

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

Gnó Mhaigh Eo works with all festivals in Mayo encouraging them to promote the Irish language and use our unique cultural heritage as a worthwhile marketing, advertising, and promotional tool. Festivals benefit greatly when they are different, unique and distinctively Irish. Locals and visitors want to touch, taste, and sample something that is real and genuinely Irish.

Westport Music Festival ‘09

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

One of the most popular music events in the west is back this year to entertain and delight its audience. The Westport Music Festival ‘09 will run from Thursday August 6 to Sunday August 9 with The Wolfe Tones, Jimmy Buckley, The Great Pretenders (Queen Tribute) and Goodbye Venice (Joe Dolan Tribute) entertaining the crowds in free open-air concerts.

Ballinrobe racecourse announces go-ahead for further development

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

Ballinrobe and its surrounding hinterland got a major boost yesterday with the news that the local race committee has confirmed that it will go ahead with a significant new project over this winter. Fifteen years ago the future of the course was in doubt, but successive developments over the past decade have transformed the course and made it into one of the jewels in the crown of Irish horse racing.

Probation Act for man ‘scorned’ by woman

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

Judge David Anderson, sitting in Ballina District Court this week, dealt with a man under the Probation Act in a case he described as “a woman scorned because she did not get alcohol and a man scorned because he did not get the woman”.

Rossport residents meet SDLP leader

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

Rossport residents Willie and Mary Corduff and Vincent McGrath, chairman of Pobal Chill Chomáin, travelled to Derry last Friday where they raised concerns about the Corrib gas project with senior politicians and local media.

Jobs in Mayo must be number one Budget priority

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

Mayo construction employers are to set to urge the Government to make job protection and creation the number one priority in December’s Budget. The employers have been responding to a call from Construction Industry Federation director general Tom Parlon to consider and input their views into the CIF’s pre-budget submission.

O’Mahony criticises Flynn for ‘talking out of both sides of her mouth’

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

While Fianna Fáil TD, Beverley Flynn is calling for an extension of the current REPS scheme or for a new scheme which would replace REPS to be implemented, Fine Gael Deputy John O’Mahony is criticising her move as “giving false hope” saying that she is “talking out of both sides of her mouth”.

Mayo researchers receive grants to save North Atlantic salmon

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

The magnificent Atlantic salmon is a miracle of nature, crossing the Atlantic to breed in Mayo’s rivers and streams, often in the very spot where it was hatched. Now the EU is funding genetic research in the Marine Institute in Newport in an effort to halt the mysterious decline in the numbers of this king of fish.

Farmer who dug up river bed during spawning season in court

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

A sheep and cattle farmer, who dug up 300 metres of the Srahnalong river bed, which runs through his land, was before Ballinrobe District Court sitting in Castlebar last week, as the farmer carried out these works during a protected spawning season.

Mayo Chamber and West on Track denounce Snip report on rail corridor

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

The Mayo Chambers are “astonished” by the recommendations contained in the An Bord Snip Nua report in relation to the non-completion of the Western Rail Corridor and the axing of the Manulla-Ballina railway.

Hollymount licensee convicted

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

A licensee of a bar in Hollymount was convicted and fined €250 at Ballinrobe District Court sitting in Castlebar last Friday after a number of people were heard on the premises at 4.30am.

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