€850,000 allocated so far this year from Community Gain Investment Fund

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

The Erris area and Kilcommon in particular has seen an allocation of €875,000 this year in local projects under the Community Gain Investment Fund which was part of the planning permission for the Corrib Gas project. Declan Turnbull from the Community and Enterprise section of Mayo County Council which manages the fund, gave the members of the Belmullet Electoral Area Committee an update on the progress made this year with the fund. Along with the €875,000 allocated so far this year, he also informed the meeting there were three other programme groups that still had to be allocated funding this year, and he hoped that these groups would see funding allocated by the end of September.

Festival of the Pirate Queen

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

Come to Louisburgh on Saturday September 14 for the Festival of the Pirate Queen.

Concerns over the increase of non authorised collection and recycling of WEEE

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

WEEE Ireland, the Irish compliance scheme for electrical and battery recycling, has raised its concerns over the increasing number of non-authorised collections and recycling of WEEE being carried out across Mayo and the whole country.

Man found with cannabis

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

A passenger in a car who was searched and found with €15 worth of cannabis in his possession was convicted and fined at this week’s sitting of Castlebar District Court.

Console opens new service in Ballina

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

Console, the national suicide charity, officially opened a new Outreach Service in the Family Resource Centre, Ballina last week.

Fine for having no driving licence

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

A Ballyhaunis woman was convicted and fined in her absence of having no driving licence and failing to produce their licence within 10 days at Ballyhaunis District Court this week.

Garda Brian Guerin gave evidence in court this week that he stopped Heile Vlasevica, 36 The Maples, Ballyhaunis, on January 29, 2013 at Hazel Hills, Ballyhaunis, and demanded the production of her driving licence, she failed to do so when stopped and he then ordered her to produce it within 10 days at a Garda station of her choice, which she failed to do.

Four year ban for man with a number of no insurance convictions

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

Judge Mary Devins banned a Ballyhaunis man from driving for four years after he was convicted for a third time for driving without insurance at Ballyhaunis District Court. Tommy Webb, Cornageachta, Aghamore who represented himself in court said that he had believed he was insured to drive the car he was stopped driving under a different insurance policy, but following investigations by the Gardai this proved not to be the case.

Host a coffee morning for hospice

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

Ireland's Biggest Coffee Morning with Bewley's takes place on September 19 next where all money raised locally stays locally to fund local hospice services.

Work so far on Mulranny footpaths praised

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

The work that has been carried out to date on the footpath and road safety scheme in Mulranny village was this week praised by the members of the Belmullet Electoral Area Committee. Steve Verity, senior executive engineer with Mayo County Council gave the members an update on the progress of the project. The works from the church to the hotel in the village are underway and nearing completion, the second stretch from Moynish House to the tourist office has seen the land acquisition agreed and construction is expected to start once the first stretch of works is completed this month.

Man caught driving without insurance twice in the same day

Fri, Sep 06, 2013

A man who was twice detected driving with no insurance by the same garda in the space of 24 hours was before Castlebar District Court this week.

The hunt is on for All Ireland final tickets

Fri, Aug 30, 2013

Not long after the final whistle in Croke Park the hunt for tickets for Mayo’s big day on September 22 began in earnest for the loyal Mayo supporters. Last year Mayo got a total allocation of 14,746 tickets for the final against Donegal, a figure similar to the number the county board sold themselves for the semi-final. This year with the minors also making the final, Mayo will see an increase in the number of tickets they are allocated by Croke Park for the final, but it is not going to see many more end up in the hands of the clubs as Mayo GAA Pro Aiden McLoughlin explained. “We won’t see that much of an increase to the clubs, once you factor in the minor players, management, and their familes from the allocation, they have to be taken care of first. We’ve also seen an increase in our Cáirde Mhaigheo members from last year too, so that will see an increase in tickets being allocated to that side too. We hope that the clubs will get a very similar allocation to what they got last year when it’s all shaken out.” Last year the clubs in the county got a total of 8,846 tickets to distribute to their members for the final.

Woman seriously injured in Old Head cliff dive accident

Fri, Aug 30, 2013

A young woman was seriously injured after she struck rocks on Wednesday afternoon while cliff-diving at Maxwell’s Leap at Old Head, near Louisburgh. The Achill Island Lifeboat was dispatched to the scene at 4pm and used the ‘daughter boat’ from the rocks below the cliff to transfer the woman to the main lifeboat before she was airlifted to Mayo General hospital by the Coast Guard helicopter which was dispatched to the scene from Shannon.

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