Music course for teachers
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
The WhistleBlast Quartet will run a summer course for teachers in the first week of July in Scoil Raifteirí, Castlebar. If interested sign up now at the Mayo Education Centre. For more information visit the website www.whistleblastquartet.com
Read more ...Summer Music Series
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Mayo County Council's Summer Music Series will feature musical performances in Achill, Ballyhaunis, Belmullet, Westport, Ballina, Charlestown, and Louisburgh.
Read more ...Clay weaving workshop
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
On Thursday July 24 a clay weaving workshop will take place in the Museum of Country Life, Turlough.
Read more ...Fishing tournament
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
The Bilberry/Lannagh Angling Club will host the annual McConville Cup from July 9 to 11 on Biberry-Lannagh Loughs, situated between Castlebar and Westport.
Read more ...Mock wedding
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
The Bonniconlon Playground Committee will hold a mock wedding in the Ocean Sands Hotel, Enniscrone, on June 26 from 6pm.
Read more ...Classic Car Show
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
The Park Hotel, Kiltimagh, will hold a classic car show and sale in support of Western Care on June 20 from 12 noon to 6pm.
Read more ...Art exhibition in Ballina
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
A new art exhibition by Nuisancebears, aka Sligo-born artist Nick Devaney, is on show in Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina Civic Offices, Arran Place, Ballina, until July 3.
Read more ...Choose Life - Reach Out art competition
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
All students who entered the Choose Life - Reach Out art competition are invited to attend Ballina Library on Friday June 18 at 2pm to be presented with certificates and a gift by Minister for State Dara Calleary.
Read more ...Summer reading challenge
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Castlebar Library will once again host a summer reading challenge, with this year’s theme being Space.
Read more ...Mayo Community Games
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
One of the biggest sporting events in the county for young children will take place on Sunday June 20 in Claremorris when the Mayo Community Games athletic finals will take place.
Read more ...Progress being made between Castlebar JPC and disco operators
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
The Castlebar Joint Policing Committee was told this week that progress was being made between the committee and the operators of two venues in the town which hold teenage discos. The JPC wants the operators of the disco to operate a system like one that is being used in Galway, where only students of the schools in the vicinity of Castlebar will be allowed attend. This is aimed at preventing large numbers of students from outside the surrounds of the town and from outside the county being bussed into the town for these events.
Read more ...Council angered over banning of turf cutting on some Mayo bogs
Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Mayo County Council has agreed to invite a delegation from the Turf Cutters Association to address it at the next meeting of the local authority, after a number of councillors expressed their disgust at the recent Department of Environment directive banning turf cutting on a number of Mayo bogs. Fine Gael councillor Seamus Weir proposed the invitation, saying: “I’m asking the council to invite the members to allow the Turf Cutters Association to address us in relation to how this new legislation is going to effect them and their tradition.” His party colleague Cllr Patsy O’Brien told the members: “We need the support of all the councillors on this, the amount of natural resources being stripped away at the stroke of a pen is crazy. I’d say cutting turf is the most natural thing for the people of Mayo to do, there is going to be a revolution if this isn’t stopped.”
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