Short stay beds in Ballina to be opened to help deal with overcrowding in Mayo General

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

Ten short stay public beds in Ballina District Hospital will be reopened in the near future to help to alleviate delayed discharges from Mayo General Hospital. The announcement of the approval for the reopening of these beds was made yesterday (Thursday, January 22) and it was warmly welcomed by Government TDs in the county.

Mayo has largest number of one-teacher schools

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

Mayo has more one-teacher schools than any other county in Ireland.

New farming body set up

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

The chairperson of the Connemara branch of the Irish Farmers Organisation has resigned.

Speaking to RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta on Tuesday, Brendan Joyce said a new organisation is to set-up in the next six weeks to represent small farmers.

Ballycroy’s Nicola Lynch for The Voice appearance

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

Nineteen-year-old Nicola Lynch from Ballycroy is to feature on this Sunday’s installment of The Voice of Ireland on RTÉ One.

Joe Brolly to launch Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

RTE Pundit and organ donor campaigner Joe Brolly will be in Mayo on St Valentine’s Day, February 14, to join Mayo Roscommon Hospice and the Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail committee to launch their three-day walking festival.

Irish TV creates twenty jobs at Munster office

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

It has been an exciting eight months for Westport couple Pierce O’Reilly and Mairead Ni Maolchiarain, as their television station, Irish TV, continues to grow steadily.

Ambitions to market Knock Shrine to millions of Catholics in the US

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

Parish priest and rector at Knock Shrine, Fr Richard Gibbons, says the historic announcement of a chartered Aer Lingus flight to carry pilgrims from New York to Knock next August is the first step towards marketing the shrine as a major pilgrim destination to tens of millions of Catholics in the USA.

Clarification

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

In last week’s issue of the Mayo Advertiser (January 16, 2015) on page two we carried a story titled “Confusion in council chamber over vote on Irish Water motion.” Due to an editorial error, we failed to include a second amendment to the motion referred to in the article put forward by Cllr Lisa Chambers. We repeated the initial amendment put forward by Cllr Al McDonnell by error and attributed it to Cllr Chambers.

What Cllr Chambers said at the meeting was: “In relation to the amendment proposed by Cllr McDonnell to the proposal put forward by Cllr Rose Conway Walsh in my view does not adequately reflect the concerns of he citizens that I have spoken to. For me the issue that seems to have arisen and I think we’re all in agreement, is that we are all fearful of privatisation, that some company will come in and buy our water supply and buy our water services and start charging people though the nose. I think we’re all on the same page when it comes to that. I don’t want to see that, I don’t think anybody else wants to see that.”

Gaisce bridge work to start

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

Work is expected to start shortly on the Gaisce Bridge in Belmullet.

Cousins of Rory Staunton to compete in Hell and Back to raise funds for sepsis awareness

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

When Rory Staunton died from sepsis at age 12 years in April, 2012 he left behind a huge grieving family in Mayo. Cousins, who Rory considered some of his best friends, gathered to mourn the passing of a loving young boy who always brought a smile to everyone’s face. Rory was intensely proud of his family and he and his little sister Kathleen looked forward every year to spending their summers in Mayo. He stayed in Knappagh, Westport, and loved day trips to Thallabawn Beach near Louisburgh with most of his cousins, and visits to his cousins in Glenhest, Newport, Castlebar and Kiltimagh.

Three month suspended sentence for man who took sister’s car

Fri, Jan 23, 2015

A man who, while in Mayo on holiday visiting his sister, stole and then crashed her car while drink driving, was given a three month suspended sentence and disqualified from driving for three years in Castlebar District Court this week.