Mayo patients could help shape future of hospital services

Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Patient Councils are to be formed by the new West and North West Hospital Group which will advise on service development and issues relating specifically to patient care. The aim of the council will be to improve the quality of services provided at the seven hospitals in the newly formed group.

Three Mayo Advertiser readers will trace their family history

Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Congratulations to Gareth Keane, Ballina; Kevin Heneghan, Castlebar; and Bridie King, Castlebar; who were the three lucky winners in the Mayo Advertiser’s National Geographic competition. There is huge interest in this unique event with hundreds of entries reaching the office of the Mayo Advertiser.

Innovative new investment opportunity with Mayo bike company

Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Over the last few years Mayo cycling company Electric Escapes has built a vibrant cycle tour business around the Great Western Greenway and other scenic cycling routes. A high national profile has ensured consistent growth and the business is now at a point of expansion. Ever enterprising, Paul Harmon the founder of Electric Escapes, is looking at a slightly alternative type of funding which offers opportunities to small local investors as well as a national and international audience.

Ballina bus shelter granted long-awaited funding

Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Mayo Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin has welcomed the funding approval for a bus shelter at Humbert Street in Ballina.

First of its kind suicide protocol launched in Mayo

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

Today, Friday, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny will officially launch an official protocol Responding to Suicide— a co-ordinated, integrated response for all agencies involved following death by suicide—which has been formulated by the Mayo Suicide Liaison Project, a dedicated service that supports all those who have been affected by suicide.

Westport Train Station is voted best in Ireland

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

Westport Train Station was this week awarded the accolade of best in Ireland as voted by its passengers and tourists.

Strawberry and potato sellers are not breaking any law

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

Independent councillor Gerry Ginty this week questioned the legality of roadside strawberry sellers which have popped up around the roadsides of the county in recent weeks.

Castlebar Town Council is owed over €1.2 million in rates from last year

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

The unaudited annual financial statement of Castlebar Town Council to the end of 2012 was down for approval at last night’s meeting of the council. The statement showed that at the end of December last year that the town council had collected €2,780,456 in commercial rates. This figure represented 69 per cent of the total of €4,136,597 that was due for collection, with €1,266,141 owed in arrears to the town council. The council at the start of 2012 had an arrears of €1,064,081 owed to it and expected collection of €4,058,517 for the year ahead, with the council writing off €986,001 over the year leaving €4,136,597 to be collected during 2012.

Woman who died in Westport car crash named

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

A 24-year-old German tourist who died in a road crash in Westport on Friday morning last has been named as Franziska Zumsteegstr. She was a passenger in a car being driven by a 33-year-old man which was involved in a collision with a lorry on the main N5 Westport to Castlebar road just after 9am.

Gathering the Mayo genes with National Geographic

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

On Sunday June 23 the people of Mayo will have an opportunity to explore their roots and to discover the diverse paths which successive waves of wanderers, migrants, invaders, and explorers have followed to reach their home here on the edge of the wild Atlantic.

Competition time —  Win the opportunity to trace your family history

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

The Mayo Advertiser is offering three readers the chance to be part of the National Geographic Genographic Project at the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life at Turlough House on Sunday afternoon, June 23.

Not all Blue Flag beaches in Mayo have a lifeguard

Fri, Jun 14, 2013

Not all of the 12 Blue Flag beaches in the county are patrolled by a lifeguard which has caused concern among locals according to councillor Michael McNamara.

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