Farmers’ livelihoods threatened by unnecessary tagging system – Ring

Mon, Mar 08, 2010

Fine Gael community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs spokesperson, Michael Ring TD, said the Government’s failure to stand up for sheep farmers at EU level has led to the imposition of a costly and unnecessary electronic tagging system, when farm incomes are already at an all time low.

Ring queries absence of broadband

Mon, Mar 08, 2010

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan has been advised by the Fine Gael spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs, Deputy Michael Ring of the absence of a broadband service in certain areas of Mayo. He raised the matter by way of a Dáil question as to what steps the Minister is taking to provide high-speed broadband services.

Record funding for housing adaptation grants

Mon, Mar 08, 2010

Record funding has been allocated for housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability this year, according to local Fianna Fáil TD and Minister for Labour Affairs, Dara Calleary.

Kiltimagh sterilised for planning if council ratifies by-pass amendment

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

A huge portion of the town of Kiltimagh will be sterilised for planning purposes if a decision by the Swinford electoral area committee made this week is ratified by the full meeting of Mayo County Council on Monday.

Bladair.com – Mayo’s Irish language blog to go national

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

A new Irish language blog, www.bladair.com, launched in Mayo to help primary and second level students improve their proficiency in the Irish language, is to be launched to a national audience following its success in Mayo.

O’Mahony shaken but well following car accident

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has thanked all the people who contacted his office by phone and text enquiring and wishing him well following a car accident he had on Saturday last.

Ring proposes that JPC write to Minister about rent supplement scheme

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring proposed at the Westport Joint Policing Committee on Monday that the JPC should write to Minister Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social and Family Affairs, in relation to the rent supplement scheme and recommend that the HSE will not provide rent supplement for people who are not on the local authority housing list or who have not had police checks.

Man to pay back social welfare money he stole

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

A Cork man who, on 11 separate occasions, claimed social welfare benefit using his brother’s name and card at Ballyhaunis Post Office, was this week before Ballyhaunis District Court.

Judge calls mother and daughter ‘reckless’ and ‘a menace’

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

Judge Mary Devins ordered probation reports on a mother and daughter who she branded as “reckless and a menace” at Castlebar District Court this week. Sarah Spence, Cosy House, Newtown, Castlebar, and her daughter Harriet Higgins, also of Cosy House, Newtown, Castlebar, were both in court to face a number of public order charges. Both Spence and Higgins pleaded guilty to the charges before the court.

Ban on head shop substances too little too late — Barrett

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

The proposal by the Government to ban a range of substances sold in head shops by the end of June is too little too late, according to Labour councillor Harry Barrett.

Jail for Knock man who bit garda

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

A 45-year-old Knock man who bit a garda’s finger and who caused criminal damage to the public office door in a Garda station was sentenced to eight months in prison at Ballyhaunis District Court on Tuesday for the assault, criminal damage, and public order charges.

Further report ordered on man found unconscious on railway tracks

Fri, Mar 05, 2010

Judge Mary Devins ordered a further probation report on a 32-years-old man, who lay intoxicated on the railway tracks at the train station in Castlebar on New Year’s Day.

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