Expecting a baby?

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

Birthwise antenatal and parenting course will be held next on Saturday February 28 and March 28 in Day's Hotel Castlebar. This one day all inclusive course will prepare expectant mums and dads for pregnancy, labour, birth, post natal period, and caring for your baby.

Orthodox service

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

The next service will take place in the Church of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar, at 3.30pm on Sunday February 1.

Want a fresh start?

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

The Erris FreshStart programme, based in Belmullet, is a personal, social, and vocational exploration course, which helps people who may not have had educational, employment, and social opportunities by providing a safe place to learn new skills.

Be Active 55 Project

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

The Be Active 55 project started in Killala and Crossmolina this Thursday and will continue every Thursday. This is a one hour exercise class especially for people who are aged 55 plus, run by a qualified exercise instructor and will cost €5 per class.

Inver National School wins prize for Game Playing Day

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

Inver National School in Ballina has won the Mayo county prize for Game Playing Day by showing that its pupils had the most fun playing board games on the day.

HSE West facing ‘grim’ year of cutbacks and reduction in staff numbers

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

The HSE West has been told it must deliver the same standard of efficiencies and care as it did last year, but by spending €30 million less. No mean feat one would say, but that has been the task given to the health authority in the west.

Pressure on housing Minister to announce funding for St Patrick’s estate

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

Residents of St Patrick’s housing estate in Ballina will have their fingers crossed today that a visit to the estate by a government minister will follow with an announcement of funding for much-needed refurbishment works.

Recommendations following Mayo drowning

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

The Marine Casualty Investigation Board recommended this week that jet skis should be registered with number plates and all users made to undergo training because of a surge in accidents, in a report into the drowning of a 21-year-old man in Lough Mask in May 2007.

Man who was over the limit drove his children to school before crashing

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

A case involving a man in his 40s who was before Ballina District Court this week, for drink driving and dangerous driving charges, was contested for three hours before the Iarnród Éireann employee was convicted of both charges.

Cuts in grants to hurt Mayo sporting organisations

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

Mayo clubs and sporting groups will be feeling the pinch of the economic downturn this year with the news that that Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism will not be providing any funding through the sports capital grant programme in 2009. In 2008 at total of 28 groups in Mayo shared in a pot of €1,380,500 in funding for projects which spanned from €2,000 to All Stars Boxing Club in Ballinrobe to €250,000 which was given to the Connacht Branch of the Golfing Union of Ireland. In 2007 more than €2.5 million in grants was handed out around County Mayo.

Kenny compliments St Gerald’s banking system

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny commented on the demise of local business due the financial crisis as he officially launched a Build A Bank project in St Gerald’s College, Castlebar last Friday.

Mayo jobs to be affected by First Active closure

Fri, Jan 30, 2009

Two Mayo First Active branches, in Ballina and Castlebar, are to be closed following the announcement this week that First Active and Ulster Bank are to merge. It is expected that up to 12 staff from the two branches will be redeployed to work in local Ulster Bank branches. There are six Ulster Banks in Mayo; in Castlebar, Ballina, Westport, Ballinrobe, Claremorris, and Ballyhaunis, but staff won’t know where they will be reassigned until a voluntary redundancy scheme has been completed.

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