EpiPen campaign support

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

Sinn Féin’s Councillor Rose Conway-Walsh is to call on Mayo County Council to support a national campaign to ease restrictions on the availability of ‘EpiPens’.

Male choir needs voices

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

The Mayo Male Voice Choir is back in rehearsal and is inviting new members to join them on Thursday September 11, (and every Thursday) at 7.45pm in GMIT, Castlebar.

Mayo group cut junior cert results night arrests

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

A unique Mayo Junior Certificate Results Night Group (MJCRNG), the only one of its kind in the country, is helping to keep teenagers safer when they head out to celebrate their Junior Certificate results.

People reskilling must be trained in relevant sectors states An Taoiseach

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny has commended the work done by Áras Inis Gluaire in developing the centre as a new media training hub in Mayo.

Mayo County Council Tyrone Guthrie Bursary recipients announced

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

Every year Mayo County Council offers two bursary awards to artists born or living in Mayo, to enable them to spend two weeks at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in Monaghan.

Singers and dancers wanted

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

Castlebar Pantomime Committee is inviting people over 18 years, to come to the adult auditions for their 2015 production of The Little Mermaid.

Work continues on route selection for Grid West Project

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

Grid West is currently continuing its work in looking at both overground and underground route options for the infrastructure project.

Council refuses planning for golf practice area

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

Mayo County Council has refused planning permission for a seven bay, floodlit practice area at Ballina Golf Club.

Dedicated group bring famous Ardizzone art home

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

The unveiling of eight original pencil drawings by world renowned illustrator Edward Ardizzone in Belmullet this week was a very proud moment for the dedicated local heritage group.

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny was in the Belmullet Arts Centre on Monday to perform the official opening of the exhibition of drawings, which Coiste Oidhreacht Iorrais have been working since 2011 to bring home to Erris, after they were uncovered in an old shirtbox in the late artist’s attic by his daugther Christiana.

An Taoiseach attends opening day at Mayo’s first Educate Together school

Fri, Sep 05, 2014

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny went back to school on Monday, when he attended the very first day of school in Newtownwhite Educate Together national school. The school, which is located just outside of Ballina, was re-assigned as an Educate Together school from its former patronage of the Church of Ireland.

Ballina man named Young Farmer of the Year

Wed, Sep 03, 2014

Ballina man Sean O'Donnell was named the FBD Young Farmer of the Year at an awards ceremony in Bantry, Cork, last night.

Warning of spike in asthma hospital admissions

Fri, Aug 29, 2014

The Asthma Society of Ireland is to hold a free, back-to-school, asthma clinic in Castlebar next month and is warning parents and teachers ahead of an expected spike in hospital admissions for children with the condition at this time of year.

Emergency hospital admissions for children with asthma more than triple in the month of September, according to the society.

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