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Efforts are being made to repatriate the body of a young Moycullen man, who tragically drowned while on holidays in Croatia, within the coming days. Eamon Buckley from Gortahalla entered the water off the coast of Split in the early hours of Monday morning. The accident occurred at the city’s main harbour, when the young man fell off a yacht and hit his head. The alarm was immediately raised by friends and a full search was launched by local emergency services. Mr Buckley’s body was recovered at around 10am on Tuesday.

Plans are under way to develop a suicide watch service along the River Corrib following a number of deaths in the river in recent weeks.

A hard-hitting road safety show to alert young people to the human cost of dangerous driving will take place at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Thursday, February 7, at 10.45am.

A hard-hitting Road Safety Show to alert young people to the human cost of dangerous driving will take place at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Thursday February 9 next at 10.45am.

A lot of public and private land was destroyed in Mayo last March and April due to bog and forest fires.

A hard-hitting road safety message will be delivered to some 1,000 teenagers at the Royal Theatre in Castlebar on February 3 when they view the award-winning Roadsafe Roadshow. The event has been organised in conjunction with the Mayo County Council, An Garda Síochána, and the local emergency services. It depicts graphically how a night out ended in tragedy and permanent disability for one Roadshow participant.

In the first quarter of 2009 more than €1,241 million was spend on international travel by people in Ireland. This is the equivalent of €36 million spent by people in Mayo alone. Ireland’s consumers are exposing themselves to a variety of risks by purchasing travel insurance as a commodity rather than seeking expert advice in relation to the cover, according to Brian Mullins, Irish Brokers Association Council member in Mayo.

In celebration of a very unusual date this week being the ninth day of the ninth month, 2009, Domino’s Pizza has decided to hold a 999 day.

The road safe roadshow project will make sure over 1,000 of Mayo's teenagers are aware of traffic dangers before they get behind the wheel themselves. The pupils were boisterous and high-spirited going into the AXA Roadsafe Roadshow at the Royal Theatre in Castlebar, but there was hardly a dry eye among them when they emerged from the hard-hitting presentation just over an hour later in previous years.