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The Map Store, Castlebar, has moved premises to a spacious, state of the art, office above Property Partner Durcan auctioneers, Chapel Street, Castlebar.

A new national rowing event will be held in Galway next March.

NUI Galway and the University of Ulster have joined forces with HSE West and the Western Health and Social Care Trust to create a collaborative cross-border partnership on diabetes-related research.

Mayo Science and Technology Festival — now in its third year — has organised an innovative night of presentations, discussion, and debate on the types of technology that might be in use in 30 years time and how these will affect our lives and those of our children. Entitled Mayo 2040, the night is aimed at entrepreneurs, business people, teachers, parents, and anyone with an interest in what Mayo might be like in 30 years’ time.

A Catholic priest living in Indiana is facing possible extradition to Ireland on charges of child sex abuse, including the rape of a child after the funeral of the child’s father in Galway more than 40 years ago.

AT JUST 15 Dublin schoolgirl Laura Izibor won the 2FM/Jacob’s Song Contest and her winning song ‘Compatible’ received significant airplay. Hotpress chose her as its ‘Hot for 2006’ artist and she became the first unsigned artist to win a Meteor Award.

Schools, social welfare offices, museums, libraries, county and town council offices all ground to a stop in the wind and rain last Tuesday as the public service workers in the county joined their colleagues across the country in a one day strike. Non essential services were not available to the people of Mayo for the day as the thousands of public service workers in the county voiced their anger at potential cut backs to their pay and conditions in the upcoming Budget.

Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael Deputy James Bannon, speaking in Dail Eireann regarding the recent flooding, said he was extremely angry that the Taoiseach did not recall the Dail over the weekend to deal with the hardship caused to so many in the Midlands and thoroughout the country.

Pedestrian areas of Galway city could be increased by 7,500sq metres in the city centre, while speed limits could be reduced to 30kph as part of ambitious new proposals which seek to reduce car use by 15 per cent by 2014.

A man who, along with an armed gang, barged his way into a house and threatened its occupants with a machete has been sentenced to eight years in prison with the final three years suspended.