Newport road needs urgent works
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Mayor of Castlebar and Fine Gael Town Councillor, Ger Deere, has expressed serious concern that a further road traffic collision has taken place on the Newport Road. The most recent collision on Friday evening last involved three cars in the same location as a number of previous accidents in recent weeks. Safety signage and some other temporary measures have been put in place but road traffic collisions are still occurring at the dangerous location on the Newport Road beside the junction for the Cemetery entrance.
Read more ...Water schemes funding of €1.1m welcomed
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
A € 1.1m funding allocation for water schemes in Mayo has been welcomed by Beverley Flynn TD.
Read more ...Gardaí to distribute high-visibility vests
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
All Garda cars in Co Mayo are to carry a stock of high-visibility vests to be given out to poorly-lit pedestrians and cyclists in a novel bid to reduce the county’s road death toll.
Read more ...Man called garda a ‘retard’ in Garda station
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
A prison sentence was imposed on a Castlebar man for public order offences in which he was abusive to gardaí. On one occasion the 19-year-old man called a garda a “retard bastard”.
Read more ...Man fled scene after crash
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
A Castlebar man who crashed his van into a another vehicle and then left the scene of the accident was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.
Read more ...Measures proposed to help lone parents
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Lone parents are at a greater risk of poverty than the population at large but at the same time those on social welfare risk losing payments if they choose to officially co-habit with or marry a partner, according to Mayo Fine Gael TD, Michael Ring.
Read more ...Sinn Féin urges alternative Consensus for Real Recovery
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Commenting on the Taoiseach’s meeting this week with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore, Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has said that her party would not be part of a consensus for cuts and was joining with trade unionists, community and voluntary organisations, and other progressive voices in calling for an alternative way forward.
Read more ...Congo veteran visits Davitt College Castlebar
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Leaving Certificate pupils studying the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme at Davitt College, Castlebar, were privileged to welcome Capt Noel Carey (retd) to their LCVP class recently. Capt Carey was on a visit to the west of Ireland from Cork where he resides with his wife Angela.
Read more ...Belmullet Irish Wheelchair Association centre on target
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
A new state-of-the-art resource and outreach centre for the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA), located in Logmore, Belmullet, is on target and is expected to be completed within seven months. Details of the development, catering for 124 people with limited mobility, were announced this week at the site of the new centre by Dara Calleary, Minister for Labour Affairs and Public Service Transformation.
Read more ...Work to commence on Claremorris Ardroe footpaths
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Claremorris Fine Gael councillor Tom Connolly has welcomed the news that the council is to commence work on the footpaths at Ardroe, Claremorris, within the next two weeks.
Read more ...Connolly welcomes Kilcolman/Facefield group water scheme
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Claremorris Fine Gael councillor Tom Connolly has welcomed the signing of the contact for upgrading the Kilcolman/Facefield group water scheme.
Read more ...More than €300,000 unspent on dialysis at Mayo General Hospital
Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Dr Jerry Cowley, Labour party general election candidate for Mayo, has called on HSE management to spend the €300,000 allocation for an extension to the dialysis unit in Mayo General Hospital and end patients travelling to Galway.
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