Barrett wants council action on jobs

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

A Castlebar councillor will be calling for a sub-committee to be appointed by Castlebar Town Council to address the worsening unemployment situation in the county town. Labour’s Harry Barrett will ask that this sub-committee be supported to meet with potential employers and state agencies like the IDA, to promote Castlebar as a location for industry.

Westport art auction

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

Celebrated sculptor John Behan is the latest artist to put up a piece of his work for an art auction being organised by the Chernobyl Children’s Project Westport Group which will take place on Friday, May 1 at the Clew Bay Hotel starting at 7.30pm.

ICA AGM

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

The Mayo Federation ICA AGM will take place in the Mayo Suite of Hotel Westport on Tuesday April 28 at 8pm.

Counselling grants approved for local organisations

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

A number of north Mayo based organisations are to benefit from funding under the Department of Social and Family Affairs Scheme of Grants for marriage, Child and Bereavement Counselling, according to Mayo FF TD Dara Calleary.

Belmullet/Erris Lions Club

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

Belmullet/Erris Lions Club would like to thank all who participated in the Slimathon 2009. Thank you to Annie Mai Leech and Maureen Gallagher (Unislim) for all their expertise, and generous sponsors Kenny Concannon (Reilly's Chemist), Seamus Cafferkey, Eddie Cuffe, and Dr Swanick.

Spring clean

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

The National Spring Clean campaign is continuing with the people of Mayo out in force organising a variety of fantastic clean up events in the county.

Book launch

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

The Minister for Rural, Community and Gaeltacht Affairs, Éamon Ó Cuív, will formally launch Deirdre agus Mic Uisnigh, the new graphic novel by Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, on Friday April 24 in Claremorris Library at 8pm.

Volunteers needed

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

The organisers of Féile na Tuaithe at the National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park, which is one of the most successful free family festivals, are seeking a number of volunteers to assist with various duties on Saturday May 23 and Sunday May 24 from 12pm to 5pm.

Allotments meeting

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

There will be a meeting of the recently formed Westport and District Allotments Group on Thursday April 30 at 8pm in the Wyatt Hotel Westport.

The group will discuss the details of a submission to the Westport Town Council draft development plan, proposing the allocation of land for municipal allotments, and the possible rezoning of development land at the back of the former Sisters of Mercy convent for community gardens. All are welcome.

Junior Minister Calleary rises quickly through the political ranks

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

Dara Calleary’s rise through the political ranks continued apace this week with the announcement that he has been appointed a Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, with special responsibility for Labour Affairs. Calleary, who was elected to the Dáil for the first time at the last general election, has become the first junior minster to be appointed from the county since Tom Moffatt lost his Dáil seat as a sitting junior minister with responsibility for health in the 2002 general election.

Balaclava-clad men enter Glengad site with iron bars

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

The already tense situation at Glengad, Belmullet, between anti Shell activists and security staff working at the Shell compound, escalated on Wednesday night, April 22, when at approximately 11.30pm “up to 15 men wearing balaclavas and armed with iron bars and chains entered the compound and threatened the security staff,” according to a Garda statement.

Frank Chambers for Europe?

Fri, Apr 24, 2009

The shock news that sitting MEP Seán Ó Neachtain will not now be contesting the European Parliamentary Elections in June due to ill health has left Fianna Fáil in a tight corner and down a candidate with only just over six weeks to go to the election. The burning question is to who will they get to replace the former Galway school teacher on the ticket alongside the recently nominated Pascal Mooney.

Informed speculation says that Frank Chambers, who had decided that he was stepping away from politics altogether after at the end of his current term on Mayo County Council, could be poised to go forward for the party on the European ticket. The former senator and Dáil candidate has a national profile from his time on the national party executive and as a senator. It is believed locally that the party could use this as they try to maintain their one seat in the North West constituency. It is believed that Chambers would be open to the idea of running on the ticket if approached, but he has yet to make any public statement on the issue.

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