Check your European Health Insurance Card

Fri, Jul 05, 2013

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane is urging people to check their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and make sure it is not out of date before they travel this summer.

QPR suicide prevention training in Ballina

Fri, Jul 05, 2013

National suicide prevention and bereavement charity Console is holding a suicide prevention training programme in Mayo to enable people to learn how to help save lives.

Eimear McBride launches her book in Castlebar

Fri, Jul 05, 2013

Former Davitt College student Eimear McBride will return to Castlebar next Thursday to launch her debut novel A Girl is Half-Formed Thing, at 6.30pm in the Castlebar Book Shop, Castle Street, Castlebar.

Eimear McBride moved to Castlebar from Tubbercurry at 14 years of age and immersed herself in the arts scene in the town, attending everything she could in the Linenhall Arts Centre.

JCI is looking for Ireland’s most friendly businesses

Fri, Jul 05, 2013

Ireland is famous all over the world for its one hundred thousand welcomes and now JCI Mayo is on the hunt for Mayo’s friendliest business. This is the third year of JCI Mayo and the Mayo Advertiser partnership in the search to find Mayo’s friendliest businesses.

Section of Rathbawn Road urgently requires safety works

Fri, Jul 05, 2013

Castlebar and Fine Gael town councillor Ger Deere has placed a motion at the next Castlebar Town Council Meeting in respect of a section of road of the Rathbawn Road. The section of road in question is quite close to the Snugboro Junction where vehicles appear to lose control. A number of road traffic collisions have taken place at the location over the past number of months, with the most recent occurring last Friday morning.

Councillor Deere said: “I am calling on the council to carry out whatever safety works that are necessary to address this serious safety issue. It appears that drivers are losing control of their vehicles on a bend and it results in them either crashing with another car or going off the road. These collisions have resulted in the garden walls of some houses being knocked, and local residents are fearing for their safety. It is completely unacceptable that such a high number of accidents are occurring on this stretch; especially with all the extra houses that have been built in the area over the years. There are more cars and pedestrians using the road and footpaths in the area than ever before.”

Heston takes the chain as Castlebar’s second lady Mayor

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

On a historic night for Castlebar Town Council, when Cllr Noreen Heston became the final Mayor of the authority, there was not much room left to spare in the packed chamber of Marsh Haouse, as family and friends from Ballycroy to Castlebar and even London were packed in to the chamber and down the stairs in the building to see her accept the chain of office. Cllr Heston succeeded her Fine Gael party colleague Cllr Brendan Henaghan for the position, and became only the second woman to hold the honour in the town. Fittingly for the night that was in it, the first female mayor, Eanya Egan, was present in the chamber and she took a seat at the council table and was not afraid to throw a few barbs across the chamber at some of her former colleagues, during some of the light hearted moments of the evening.

Emergency responses way off eight minute target

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

HSE West ambulance crews are still a long way off meeting the response time of eight minutes to life-threatening emergency calls. In the first five months of 2013 only 28 per cent of emergency calls were responded to within the eight minute time frame as set out by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) in 2011.

Hand over to Irish Water progressing in the county

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

The roll over of the responsibility for the provision of water from the local authorities in the country to the newly formed Irish Water is continuing thought the year, the water supply and sewerage strategic policy committee of Mayo County Council was told this week.

NRA to erect tourism signage for Achill

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring has welcomed the news by the NRA that it has now agreed that Achill should have additional signage to reflect its importance as a tourism destination.

Expert body on fluoride tells council fluoride in water is safe

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

This time last year the strategic policy committee on water supply and sewerage of Mayo County Council was given a presentation by Stephen Kerr of Fluoride Awareness Mayo, where he called on Mayo County Council to end the practice of putting fluoride in the water supply alleging that it can pose serious health risks to the public and the council was leaving itself open to potential legal claims.

Clarification

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

In last week’s edition of the Mayo Advertiser (June 21, 2013), we reported that the June meeting of Ballina Town Council was adjourned as a mark of respect to a former employee who died suddenly. We reported that it was a Mr Michael Moran who had died, when it should have been Mr Michael Morell RIP for whom the meeting was adjourned as a mark of respect.

Thousands expected in Westport this weekend for festival

Fri, Jun 28, 2013

Westport will be bustling full of festival revellers this weekend as the Westport Festival of Music and Food will take place in the grounds of Westport House on Saturday and Sunday.

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