Ballycroy homework club

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Ballycroy homework club will commence on Tuesday March 27 and run for each Tuesday and Thursday evening from 5pm to 8pm, if there are a sufficient number

Belcarra Community Futures

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

The community day is planned for Sunday April 29 from 3pm to 6pm in the Belcarra Community Centre.

Ballinrobe Tidy Towns

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

The next meeting will be on Wednesday March 21 at 8pm in the Parish Centre.

Car boot sale

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

A car boot sale will take place in Main Street Car Park, Castlebar on Sunday March 25 from 8am to 3pm.

Volunteers needed for Enable Ireland

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Enable Ireland requires volunteers to work with disabled children in a variety of settings. Help needed in following roles: PA, buddy system, swimming, sports, summer camps, social outings, centre based helpers.

An Post must explain rationale behind Knockmore Post Office closure

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Dara Calleary, Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo, has called upon An Post to ensure it has representation at tonight’s public meeting (Friday March 16) to discuss the impending closure of the post office in Knockmore.

Welcome for bilingual Titanic Commemorative plaque

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane, has welcomed the decision at last week’s town council meeting to erect the Titanic commemorative plaque for the Addergoole Fourteen at Castlebar Railway Station in English and Irish, reversing a previous decision to erect the sign in English only.

IDA visit former Volex and APC plants

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Following a motion submitted by Cllr Ger Deere and passed at Castlebar Town Council, Mayor Cllr Eugene McCormack wrote to the CEO of the IDA, Barry O’Leary, requesting that they visit the former Volex and APC plants on the Breaffy Road in Castlebar which are now disused.

Child and adolescent mental health team for Ballina

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Mayo Fine Gael TD Michelle Mulherin has welcomed the announcement that a second child and adolescent mental health services psychiatrist and team is to be appointed in Mayo and based in the HSE Primary Care Centre in Ballina.

Mayo’s budding designers to hit the catwalk

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Seventeen teams of Mayo secondary students have been selected to go forward to the Western regional final of the ERP Junk Kouture Recycled Fashion Competition at the Hudson Bay Hotel, Athlone, on March 25. The competition invites budding fashion designers to rework trash and used materials into remarkable high-end couture fashion, promoting sustainability, especially the recycling of electrical waste. The competition received phenomenal interest from the west, with the top 70 creations selected to go through to the regional final.

€5.3 million awarded to personal injury claimants in Mayo

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

InjuriesBoard.ie today, which published a review of 2011 data, shows that compensation totalling €5.3 million was awarded in 2011 to Mayo claimants in respect of 196 personal injury claims. In 2010, 162 claims were made in the county worth €4.9 million.

Council offices now taking cash for Household Charge payment

Fri, Mar 16, 2012

Fine Gael TD for Mayo, Michelle Mulherin, has welcomed the news that all local authority offices in Mayo are accepting cash from those paying the new Household Charge.

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