Twins antenatal class developed in Mayo University Hospital

Fri, Sep 16, 2022

The Maternity Unit in Mayo University Hospital (MUH) has developed a special antenatal programme for expectant parents of twins to help prepare them for the journey ahead.

Castlebar SVP launches its Education and Training Bursary for 2022/23

Fri, Sep 16, 2022

A volunteer with the Castlebar conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) has noted the increasing difficulties local families are experiencing in day-to-day living: increased fuel costs for travel to work and increased heating costs for those working from home, etc.

Uncomfortable history and collective memory

Fri, Sep 16, 2022

I have been talking a lot recently about public or collective memory. The series of commemorations that began two years ago illustrates that while we may have different interpretations of the events that gave rise to the birth of our nation, it is clear that the happenings of 1919-1923 are firmly embedded in the collective conscience. We will never agree on the finer detail of the roles played by the principal protagonists involved in the Treaty negotiations of 1921.

Calleary back in big time after he replaces Troy

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has returned to the top level of Government having been appointed Minister of State in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, to replace Robert Troy.

Appointment of contractors for Westport Flood Relief Scheme

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

Mayo County Council has appointed Cunningham Civil and Marine Ltd. to construct the Westport Flood Relief Scheme. Delivered in partnership with the OPW, the Westport Flood Relief Scheme has a budget of €1.181m.

Mayo graduate of the 1950s recognised at special family conferring celebration

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

As part of NUI Galway’s Autumn Conferring, which saw more than 1,700 graduates return to campus, the University recognised and celebrated one of the oldest graduates to have attended a conferring ceremony.

Minister must urgently deliver solutions to School Transport Crisis

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

Mayo Sinn Féin TD, Rose Conway-Walsh, has said that the Minister for Education and representatives of Bus Éireann must come before the Oireachtas urgently to address the scandal of shortages on school transport in Mayo.

Ballina Fringe Festival 2022 is centre stage this October in Ballina

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

Ballina Fringe Festival returns to centre stage from October 7 to 15, bringing music, visual art, theatre, spoken word and dance to town in a programme that is a real feast for the senses.

€100,000 to enhance Ballyhaunis streetscape and shopfronts

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

Ballyhaunis will benefit from a fund of €100,000 to support the enhancement of streetscapes and shopfronts. The funding is being allocated to Mayo County Council under the Streetscape Enhancement.

Mayo targets the Diaspora in Milwaukee

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

The 41st annual Milwaukee Irish Fest – the largest celebration of Irish culture and heritage in the United States – recently took place on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin.

Mayo County Prison after the Battle of Castlebar 1798

Fri, Sep 02, 2022

The sound of artillery and musket fire has died away. Dead combatants and military ordinance are scattered on the Green in Castlebar. Outside the County Prison on the Green, the blood-soaked body of a lone Fraser Fencible lay dead on the steps – bludgeoned to death by French infantrymen.