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Two executives from Opensparkz, the company which is looking to purchase the old Volex plant in Castlebar from Mayo County Council for €700,000 to set up a technology hub in the town, faced a grilling from the elected members of Mayo County Council this week.

The 250 high-skilled jobs promised for Castlebar earlier this week are to be filled over the next three years, according the founder of the company overseeing the development of a hub in Castlebar.

The last few weeks have been among the busiest in the history of Mayo Mountain Rescue Team. Team leader Mary Walsh noted that since Reek Sunday, at the end of July, to September 7, the team have responded to 14 call outs. “It is unprecedented in the history of the team that we have had such a concentration of call-outs in the last number of weeks,” she said. Similar sentiments were expressed by deputy team leader Declan Conway, who remarked that in all his years on the team, he had never seen such a demand for its services.

Three men who were involved in a verbal altercation while they were all intoxicated were before Belmullet District Court this week after gardaí arrested them for being threatening and abusive.