Book launch in Mulranny

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

A book by Maggie Heston called Mother’s Whispers will be launched on March 17 at Nevins, Newfield Inn, Mulranny at 8pm.

Talking openly about mental health in Mayo

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

A series of mental health trialogue meetings, which are open conversations about mental health, will be held in Castlebar over the coming months. The trialogue meetings, which are aimed at people caring for someone with mental health difficulties, people working in mental health, people who have mental health difficulties, community and voluntary sector groups, and everyone who cares about positive mental health, will be held in the Ruby Room of the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar, with the inaugural meeting being held on Tuesday March 15 at 7pm.

Junior Inventor Awards 2011 Launched

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

The Patents Office has launched the Junior Inventor Awards 2011. The awards, which are now in their fourth year, seek to encourage primary school children to demonstrate their creativity and inventiveness, and hopefully sow the seeds of interest in the sciences and engineering at an early age.

Mayo schools invited to participate in SciFest at AIT

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Secondary school students throughout Mayo are being urged to submit their entries for SciFest at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) before the closing date of March 9.

FETAC courses in addiction, social studies and languages in Castlebar

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Mayo based The Learning Curve Institute, one of the west’s fastest expanding training and education providers, is now delivering a host of new FETAC accredited short-term courses in Castlebar.

Better Grades Grinds School offering Saturday classes

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Better Grades Grinds School is now open in Castlebar offering a wide range of subjects for Junior and Leaving Certificate students. Classes are run on Saturdays out of GMIT Castlebar and are competitively priced at €17.50 per class when students register for two classes.

Shooting the Breeze with... Fintan Coen and Lisa Ruane

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Mayo native Lisa Ruane and her Roscommon boyfriend Fintan Coen enjoyed a cup of tea on Monday in the comfort of Lisa’s home in Belcarra. As they looked back over the events of the previous week - their terrifying ordeal trying to flee from war torn Libya - the reality of what they had been through was sinking in.

Ballina gets second Dáil TD, while Castlebar drops to one

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

While Enda Kenny swept the boards across the county as Fine Gael surged to picking up four seats in Mayo, there was also a shift in the power base of TDs in the county last weekend. For the first time in a number of years, Ballina has the largest number of TDs in the county. The election of both Fine Gael’s Michelle Mulherin and the return of Fianna Fáil’s Dara Calleary has seen Ballina overtake Castlebar in the number of TDs.

Going into the election there were two sitting TDs in the county town, but with the decision of outgoing TD Beverley Flynn not to contest last week’s General Election it left the county town with only one TD in the form of the incoming Taoiseach. While Kenny picked up votes all over the county his exceptionally strong polling in the county town made it very difficult for any of the other Castlebar based candidates to give a serious challenge to retaining a second seat in the town.

Fine Gael now look to fill vacant county and town council seats

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Fresh from celebrating the election of Michelle Mulherin to the Dáil the members of the Ballina district of the Fine Gael party will have to get voting again very soon. Because of her election, the party now has vacancies to fill on both Mayo County Council and Ballina Town Council. Ordinarily a vacant seat is filled by co-opting a Fine Gael candidate who missed out on getting elected to the county council last time. However the Fine Gael vote managment in the 2009 local elections was so good that all their candidates in the Ballina electoral area were elected to the county council.

Ring helping Ireland to get ‘up and running’

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Having received 13,180 first preference votes, Michael Ring gallantly walked into the 31st Dáil. Back working in his constituency office after a victorious weekend, Michael Ring took time out to speak to the Mayo Advertiser about what he, as part of the Mayo Fine Gael four, will endeavour to work for on behalf of his constituents.

Four years is a long time in politics

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

“A week is a long time in politics,” former British prime minister Harold Wilson famously said. Four years even longer and in Mayo the change was a lot more dramatic than most would have expected from the last time they stood in the count centre in the Royal Theatre for a general election count. The blue surge over the country turned into a tidal wave in Mayo, with four of the five seats going to Fine Gael. The four Fine Gael candidates took 58.96 per cent of the first preference vote in the county, which translates into 48,170 first preference votes. That is an increase of 5.13 per cent from 2007 or 9,924 votes.

MEP calls meeting to tackle ‘Independent Deficit’ in Seanad

Fri, Mar 04, 2011

Ireland North West MEP Marian Harkin will this Saturday host a meeting of Independent politicians to discuss a strategy for returning Independent candidates in the forthcoming Seanad election.

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