Our NAMA nightmare has just begun...

Fri, Sep 18, 2009

Just over a year since the Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy causing financial shock waves throughout the world, with the crest of these shock waves forcing Ireland into a deep recession, the Government’s legislative resuscitation for our economy, through the establishment of the National Asset Management Agency to purge the five financial institutions in the country — AIB, Anglo Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, EBS Building Society and Irish Nationwide – of toxic loans which were incurred during the property boom, has begun.

Shop local this autumn and know you’ve done your bit

Fri, Sep 04, 2009

It’s back to brass tacks this week. The schools are open (for how long we don’t know because swine flu is bound take a grip), the tourists are gone, and within a few days businesses will get a real sounding about how the the next few months should go.

The best and the brightest?

Fri, Aug 28, 2009

Firstly I’m far from an economist, I’m not even an amateur economist, dabbling in the social science in school and third level made sure that my economic genius would not see the light of day in the business or academic world. But even I can still recognise that when 46 highly qualified academics sign an article in a newspaper, it might be worth having a look at what they are saying.

Anger mounting over where taxes are spent

Fri, Aug 21, 2009

There is growing unease among Irish taxpayers about where their taxes go.

Communities shaken by litany of knife crimes

Fri, Aug 14, 2009

Mayo is in shock.
Two stabbings in one week. A family in mourning. One of our guardians of society wounded. People left to wonder what went wrong. What events led up to an incident where a garda is stabbed? What went on in a rural west of Ireland town to see a young father left murdered in a dark laneway?

Let’s get ready to party and a hearty Mayo welcome to you too

Fri, Jul 31, 2009

It would be easy to write an editorial this week about how it is time for Mary Harney to step up to the plate or step down. I’m not usually critical of Minister Harney, I think she’s a brave woman for taking on the health portfolio, but I think new ideas are needed in our health service, with a new leader to boot.

Bankrupting Irish education

Fri, Jul 24, 2009

Primary schools face bankruptcy if the Government adopts the recommendations published in the An Bord Snip Nua report.

One snip too many

Fri, Jul 17, 2009

An Bord Snip Nua and its very title has many a man crossing his legs in fear but the real pain is not contained within the body’s name but its contents.

Early bird train service from Westport

Fri, Jul 17, 2009

Following a proactive Westport Town Council campaign, it has been confirmed that a train service from Westport which will arrive in Dublin’s Heuston Station before 9am will commence, along with extra services on the Mayo line, in September.

Online spoof blew us away

Fri, Jul 10, 2009

The Mayo Advertiser are offering €1,000 to any reader who can produce a full hard copy of last week’s paper with the headline “Massive blow jobs for Belmullet”. Internet bloggers have been almost hysterical since a spoofed-up copy of our front page started circulating last Monday. There are still many doubting Thomas’ who think it was the headline of the century that slipped through the proofing process, but alas, our original headline was much more sombre.

The shop local message is hugely important

Fri, Jul 03, 2009

As the jobs carnage in this country is set to surpass half a million by the end of the year, Mayo has felt the full wrath of what it means to belong to the unemployed statistics this week with the announcement of 80 job losses in Belmullet.

Society’s problems not just the young

Fri, Jun 19, 2009

Anyone who logged on to the discussion board on www.castlebar.ie this week will have seen a lengthy discussion on events in Castlebar last Friday night surrounding a Junior Cert disco, when hundreds of teenagers from across the region converged on Castlebar. Anyone who was around the town that night couldn’t fail to notice the large numbers that were out and about, some of them were very drunk, but plenty more were as sober as the day they were born.

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