Mayo PPN information evenings for community groups

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

Mayo Public Participation Network (PPN) is organising a number of information evenings for community groups this March and April. The first series of meetings in March will take place in the four municipal districts in Mayo and is open to groups registered with Mayo PPN, in these areas. The April meeting will take place in Castlebar and is open to all groups registered with Mayo PPN.

Thousands of children waiting for orthodontic treatment as key posts remain vacant – Calleary

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has called on the Health Minister to immediately intervene to reduce waiting lists and waiting times for orthodontic treatment for children in the west. New figures released to the Mayo TD reveal that there are 1,741 children on the list for orthodontic assessment and another 2,689 waiting for treatment.

IWAK offers chance to visit the home of Santa

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

Ireland West Airport this week announced a special flight to Lapland will take to the skies in December 2017. This one night Santa’s Sleepover trip will depart on December 12 and is a holiday of a lifetime.

Claremorris gets ready for a parade to remember

Thu, Mar 16, 2017

Claremorris promises to host one of the most colourful and spectacular St Patrick’s Day parades with a huge international involvement from nearly 20 countries on Friday, thanks to main sponsor St Colman’s Credit Union, Claremorris.

Signal from black box of Rescue 116 detected

Tue, Mar 14, 2017

A signal from the black box – belonging to R116 helicopter which crashed in the early hours of Tuesday morning, has been detected by rescue crews working to find the three crew members of the helicopter still missing since the crash . The box was discovered shortly after 4pm on Wednesday close to Blackrock Lighthouse

Government committed to future of GMIT in Mayo

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

Yesterday, a delegation of Fine Gael Seantors from the county, Paddy Burke, Senator John O'Mahony, and Michelle Mulherin, held a meeting with Minister for Education Richard Bruton on the future of the campus. After the meeting Senator Mulherin said: “The Minister has confirmed that the Government is fully committed to the Castlebar campus of GMIT and its future growth. This will involve developing new courses and responding to the growing demand for further education in order to ensure upskilling and re-skilling responding of the labour force which is set to continue and which has been identified by the OECD."

Has the day of the disposable shovel arrived?

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

"Have we now got to the stage of having the disposable shovel? Because for the price you've told us we're buying them for, you'd do well to get one fixed for less than that price," asked Cllr Richard Finn this week at the March meeting of Mayo County Council. The councillor was responding to a presentation given by the council's procurement officer John Maughan to the elected members.

Mayo youngsters raise money for children's ward recliners

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

Young people from Foróige's Big Brother Big Sister programme and Mayo Comhairle Na nÓg collaborated to raise almost €2,400 for the purchase of reclining chairs at the children’s wards of Mayo University Hospital. The chairs are intended for use by parents who are required to stay overnight with their sick children.

Mayo's Bon Secours inmates

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

In a little under five years time, Ireland will roll out the red commemoration carpets for a year long celebration to mark the centenary of the Irish Free State. In the decades preceding the independent state, unionist politicians and their constituents vigorously, and even militantly, opposed any form of self-determination for Ireland as they believed Home Rule under a Catholic majority would mean Rome rule. The fears of those unionists were realised. The Free State, like the British state before it, inadequately supervised Catholic institutions tasked with caring for sections of Irish society and thereby put at risk the very children of the nation that independence was destined to cherish. The Free State's successors were equally culpable of neglect as each fed its own citizens to an ultra conservative, practically unregulated, system of 250 Church-run industrial schools, reformatories, orphanages, hostels and homes from the 1920s up until the 1990s. Since the 1990s, criminal cases and inquiries have established that thousands of children were abused by hundreds of priests and several Catholic religious orders were found to have participated in or concealed child abuse. 

Run the runway at IWAK this May for a good cause

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

Ireland West Airport Knock (IWAK) this week announced its second annual charity 5k runway fun run will take place on the runway at Ireland West Airport on Saturday May 27, following the success of its first runway fun run last year.

Mayo’s volunteer drivers cover 50,525km for Irish Cancer Society

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

The Irish Cancer Society’s volunteer driver service has said that 356 journeys totalling a travel distance of 50,525km were covered by 46 Irish Cancer Society volunteer drivers in Mayo last year. This is a free transport service and is available to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments in Mayo University Hospital and University Hospital Galway.

Gail Flinter, patient travel and financial support manager with the Irish Cancer Society, said: “The volunteer driver service allows cancer patients access to free transport to and from their chemotherapy treatments, removing the stress, difficulty, and financial burden of travelling at a challenging time. This is a local service with local drivers driving local patients to and from their treatments.

Daffodil Day launched in Mayo

Fri, Mar 10, 2017

Daffodil Day committees in Mayo launched Daffodil Day 2017 this week, to support the growing number of people being diagnosed with cancer in Ireland. Friday, March 24 is the 30th anniversary of Daffodil Day and volunteers in Mayo will be out in force once again to raise crucial funds to help those affected by cancer.

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