Should there be a second act in some sporting lives?

Fri, Aug 10, 2012

Even if you have no interest in the sport or even little understanding of why someone would step into a ring and voluntarily have somebody else do their damnedest to hurt you for eight or nine minutes, you have probably still found it hard not to have been impressed by the way that Katie Taylor et al in the Irish boxing team have lifted the sprits of the nation over the past week.

No change to means test terms for student grants this year — Kenny

Fri, Aug 10, 2012

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny this week has welcomed clarification by the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, that there are to be no changes to the means test terms for student grants for the coming 2012/2013 academic year.

Castlebar woman in JCI Outstanding Young Persons of the World Final

Fri, Aug 10, 2012

Castlebar’s Aisling Neary has made her way through to the final 20 in the Outstanding Young Persons of the World competition, which is being run by Junior Chambers International. Neary, who is from Rathbawn in Castlebar, has been nominated under the humanitarian/voluntary leadership section. After qualifying as a nurse she joined Health Action Overseas and worked with children in an orphanage in Romania, before travelling in Australia and providing nursing to families living in the underdeveloped Australian bush.

Hats off to the BBC and Team GB

Fri, Aug 03, 2012

Olympic fever has gripped the country but Ireland is still in search of that elusive medal.

Let’s make Mayo the tourism capital of Ireland

Fri, Jul 20, 2012

There’s festival fever in Mayo this summer and what a county this is for staging innovative and crowd pleasing events season after season.

Save Our Small Schools campaign is unimaginative

Fri, Jul 13, 2012

Dear Editor,
I know we are in the silly season but even so I must say I found The Soap Box featured in the Mayo Advertiser on June 29 particularly offensive. Once again the Save our Small Schools (SOSS) campaign regurgitates its tired, unimaginative rhetoric. Yet again we have more of the ‘circling the wagons’ mentality, more about fighting off change and pleas to leave everything as it is.

One is too many, never mind one a week

Fri, Jul 13, 2012

The time for talking about doing something has passed, and unfortunately for 23 families so far this year the time for doing something has passed also. At last Monday’s meeting of Mayo County Council, the members engaged in serious and at times heart-wrenching discussion about suicide.

Travel expenses scandal exposes farcical lack of accountability in political salaries

Fri, Jul 06, 2012

What is most galling about the use of tax-payer funded travel expenses by our Independent TDs and members of the Technical Group in Dail Eireann that has come to light of late, is not so much the fact that such misappropriation of funds occurred, but that the deputies in question so adamantly justified their entitlement to use public moneys in this way.

More than 2,500 runners expected on Achill Island this weekend

Fri, Jul 06, 2012

Over 2,500 runners are expected to descend on Achill Island this weekend for the Achill Half Marathon taking place on Saturday, July 7.

Septic tank charges questioned and alert issued on false inspectors

Fri, Jul 06, 2012

Members of Mayo County Council have questioned costs relating to the imposition of septic tank charges.

Budget mutterings fail to mar July buzz as summer holidays beckon

Fri, Jun 29, 2012

It was only a matter of time. Of course the Croke Park (Choke Park) Agreement is going to be tampered with – along with social welfare, income tax, and child benefit — in the upcoming autumn budget, in which the Government has to make additional savings of €3.5 billion. No small change there.