Career Column

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

1. Too much information – which sounds like a line from a sitcom, but, it is particularly true in a CV. Don’t ask the employers to wade through oceans of information. They may even decline to do so - and, even if they read it, you run the risk of the employer not seeing the important stuff you want them to see.

Science Ireland celebrates ten year anniversary

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

Science Ireland, originally established as the True Physics Project in 2001, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The project was established to promote the physics curriculum, and in so doing, assist schools in their bid to retain students of the subject.

Gortskehy NS features on community TV channel

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

Gortskehy National School is the first primary school in Ireland to have the pupils' video work featured on An Lar TV, a community TV channel for the Irish Diaspora. anlar.tv has an audience of between 2,500 and 3,000 people a day in some 50 countries. Gortskehy school joins a list of other educators providing content for the channel such as the University of Limerick, the Royal College of Science at UCD, and the Irish School of Animation in Dublin.

Grant changes threaten future of college education for GMIT students

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

With government agencies such as the Western Development Commission suggesting there should be a focus on education as part of the push to create jobs and growth in the west it is clear that colleges such as GMIT Castlebar are of huge significance for the area.

The Soap Box – A regular column in which readers tell us about what matters to them....

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

The ISPCC website features the heartbreaking story of Holly (15). After months of suffering at the hands of bullies at school and on a social networking site she plucked up the courage to contact the Childline One to One instant messaging service and admit that she was finding it hard to cope. Holly had her hair pulled and her lunch taken. She was being threatened and called names. Worst of all she was feeling isolated, scared and lonely as her former friends no longer talked to her.

Hospital survey finds overcrowding at Mayo General is at a five-year low

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

Mayo General Hospital is one of the best performing hospitals in the country when it comes to the controversial issue of overcrowding.

The Castlebar hospital has seen a dramatic decrease in the number of patients waiting on trolleys for admission to the hospital, according to statistics released this week. The statistics referred to the first half of the year, January to June, and show a massive decrease of 58 per cent in the number of patients being treated on trolleys in comparison to the same period five years ago, completely contradicting the trend nationally. That translates to 485 patients in the first half of this year in comparison to 1,143 for the same period five years ago. There has been a 53 per cent decrease in overcrowding at Mayo General in the first six months of this year in comparison to the same period last year (1,029 patients reduced to 485) and the only other similarly performing hospital in the country is Letterkenny General Hospital.

€9 million upgrade for Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

A €9 million upgrade for the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme which was announced by Minister Phil Hogan this week has been welcomed by Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Michael Ring.

Work carried out on council houses with radon

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

Houses in the council’s housing stock, which were found to have above the recommended level of radon have been worked on, members of the housing SPC were informed on Monday.

Mayo cancer patient waiting months for vital surgery

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

A Mayo cancer patient who has been waiting months for vital surgery was devastated to learn this week that her wait will be increased by at least another month.

New Castlebar music festival committee to be formed

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

There was a great turn out at the recent meeting to discuss a proposed new festival in Castlebar at Bar Ritz on Tuesday June 28. A second meeting has being arranged next Tuesday July 12 at 8pm to put forward a working committee for the coming year.

New Westport Cathaoirleach promises to ‘walk the walk’

Fri, Jul 08, 2011

New Cathaoirleach of Westport Town Council Councillor Christy Hyland said that he “will walk the walk, rather than talk the talk” during his time in the chair.