Mayo County Council announces Tyrone Guthrie regional bursary scheme recipients
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
Every year Mayo County Council offers two special bursary awards to artists born or living in Mayo, to enable them to spend two weeks at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan. Each bursary covers all board and lodging expenses for a two-week period, plus the use of a studio if relevant. There are a variety of work spaces including studios, a music room for composers and musicians, a multi-media room and a large rehearsal and performance space.
Read more ...New website seeks to connect millions of Mayo people worldwide
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
An online initiative by Mayo County Council with the Western Development Commission (WDC) will see millions of people in the global Mayo family get connected through an innovative and exciting online project, www.mayo.ie. The new website launched by An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, at The Museum of Country Life on Friday last, will bring together a wide range of information on all aspects of Mayo from business and social interaction to genealogy and local history.
Read more ...Questions raised by Kelly over funding to Ballina Chamber
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
Independent Ballina town councillor Mary Kelly raised a number of questions over the allocation of €20,000 worth of funding from the council’s coffers towards Ballina Chamber of Commerce for 2011. Cllr Kelly asked what the council would get for the large allocation of funding towards the Chamber and what influence the council would have on where the money was being spent.
Read more ...No Ballina housing for people with anti social behaviour orders
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
Ballina town councillor Johnny O’Malley has asked for the town council to look into putting an amendment on the new social housing allocation scheme to stop people with antisocial behaviour orders being eligible for housing supplied by the council in the future.
Read more ...Six month sentence for man with large number of previous convictions
Fri, Jun 10, 2011
A Ballyhaunis man who had 35 previous convictions, including 25 for public order offences and two for assault causing harm, was given a total of six months in prison this week after he pleaded guilty to two more public order offences.
Read more ...Man still being questioned after shocking Balla shop shooting
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
A man in his 40s was last evening still in custody and detained at Castlebar Garda Station in relation to Tuesday evening’s shooting of a woman in her 50s in the village of Balla.
Read more ...Man still being questioned after shocking Balla shop shooting
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
A man in his 40s was last evening still in custody and detained at Castlebar Garda Station in relation to Tuesday evening’s shooting of a woman in her 50s in the village of Balla.
Read more ...Verdict of accidental death in Gallagher case
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
A verdict of accidental death was returned by a jury following an eight-day inquest into the death of Achill woman Ashling Gallagher, who died in a road collision on the N59 in 2004.
Read more ...Local carers’ associations condemn ‘hidden health crisis’
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
The Regional Alzheimer Society and Local Carers Association have slammed the “eye-opening” findings of RTÉ Prime Time Investigates, which has found that more than 82 per cent of family carers have been affected by cutbacks in State services and are living in poverty.
Read more ...Tourism Minister warns industry to ‘pass cost savings to tourists – or else’
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
The Junior Minister for Tourism has issued a stern warning to all involved in the tourism trade to give the consumer the benefit of recent Government cost reductions, or those reductions could be reversed in next December’s budget.
Read more ...Car and door to house smashed up in family fracas
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
Two men were sentenced to prison this week after they smashed up a car and door to a house of a Castlebar man.
Superintendent Peter O’Boyle outlined to Castlebar District Court that on March 4 2011, Jimmy McDonagh 11 The Grove, Castlebar and Owen McDonagh, 27 Castlegrove, Castlebar went to 1 Rowan Drive, Castlebar where they attacked a car belonging to John Maughan. Both defendants smashed the car windows with iron bars and bottles. Owen McDonagh also smashed the glass patio door of Mr Maughan’s residence.
Read more ...Mount Falcon wins two restaurant awards
Fri, Jun 03, 2011
Mount Falcon and the Kitchen Restaurant scooped the Best Hotel Restaurant Award in Connaught, with their chef, Philippe Farineau, crowned Best Chef in Connaught at the recently held Santa Rita/Sunday Independent Irish Restaurant Awards 2011.
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