Mayo woman and group win top places at Clean Coast’s Ocean Hero Awards

Fri, Dec 17, 2021

Over the past two weeks Clean Coasts have honoured winning groups, individuals, communities and businesses who have won an Ocean Hero Award for outstanding work and commitment to their coastlines and areas.

Note Waves podcast from Mayo County Council Writer In Residence

Fri, Dec 17, 2021

Mayo County Council Writer in Residence, Elizabeth Reapy, recently invited fellow writers from Mayo and writers with strong links to Mayo to discuss their creative process.

The 'Irregulars' of St Gerald's College, Castlebar, 1922

Fri, Dec 17, 2021

Anyone schooled at St Gerald’s De La Salle College in Castlebar in the early to mid-1980s will know what it was like to go on a ‘Nature Walk’ on the shores of Lough Lannagh during a double science or biology class, when the weather improved in May or in September after the long summer break.

Trials of the Threshers – Castlebar Courthouse 1806

Fri, Dec 10, 2021

Picture this – imagine if this week, our attorney general and chief justice, together with our most senior and respected legal counsel, solicitors, prosecutors, and supporting officials and clerks, abandoned government buildings and the Four Courts and made their way west to Castlebar.

Ballinrobe bypass a long way off

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

A bypass of Ballinrobe looks to be a long way away from happening - the elected members of the Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District were told this week.

Gale days and stormy nights in county Mayo

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

Storm Arwen passed through this week, and in Murrisk at least, it kicked up less of a fuss than many of the breezy evenings we have experienced since late September.

Westport Councillors express concerns about slippage on Tidy Towns front

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

The absence of a report on the Tidy Towns result from the agenda of the November meeting of the West Mayo Municipal District, was highlighted by councillors in Westport at their monthly meeting this week.

Government must go back to the table on pyrite/mica scheme - Conway-Walsh

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

Mayo Sinn Féin TD, Rose Conway-Walsh, has said that the government needs to remove the 'sliding scale' provision of the Pyrite/Mica redress scheme.

Gardaí seize €12,500 of suspected cannabis herb in Westport

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

An Garda Síochána has seized more than €12,500 worth of suspected cannabis herb following the search of a house in Westport, Co Mayo, under Operation Tara, on Tuesday November 30, 2021.

McNamara disappointed housing adaption grants ended in September

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

Achill based councillor Paul McNamara has expressed disappointment that Mayo County Council stopped issuing funding for a number of housing adoption grants this autumn after the schemes funding ran out for the year.

Walk-in Clinic in Mayo for booster vaccines for people in their 60s on Saturday

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

The Breaffy House Resort Vaccination Centre will be holding a walk-in booster vaccination clinic on Saturday for people aged 60 to 69 who have reached an interval of at least 150 days since their second dose vaccine or have an interval of at least three months since receiving the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Councillors approve Westport estates flood relief schemes

Fri, Dec 03, 2021

The elected members of the Westport Belmullet Municipal District have approved part eight planning permission for the development of a Flood Relief Scheme at Cois Abhainn and Ashwood Residential Estates, Ballinrobe Road in Westport, at their November meeting.

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