Evening of music and song

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Marese O’Hara and Elaine Madden return to the Church of the Holy Rosary, Castlebar, for an evening of music and song on Friday March 11 at 8.30pm.

Brent Pope to visit Ballina Library

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Rugby pundit and children’s author Brent Pope will visit Ballina Library, Bord Gáis Energy READISCOVER Your Local Library campaign, which this year takes place for the month of March.

Darts competition

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Cara Iorrais would like to thank the Maloney family for choosing Cara Iorrais to share in the proceeds of the Eileen Maloney Memorial Darts Competition held in The Valley Inn, Pullathomas last month.

Pyjama Day

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Almost 20 Mayo childcare facilities have already registered to participate in this year’s NCNA National Pyjama Day in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Hospice Homecare for Children programme.

Cycle along Mayo coast

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

On Monday March 28 Stephen Mullaly, a volunteer Irish Coast Guard who is undertaking a 1,000 mile charity cycle around Ireland, will cycle along the Mayo coast calling into the Irish Coast Guard stations in Killala, Bunbeg and Achill along the way.

Nephin hike

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Barry Murphy of Tourism Pure Walking Holidays in Castlebar is leading a climb on March 19 of Nephin Mór.

GMIT student innovation award winners announced

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

The Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC) at GMIT Castlebar has announced the winners of the GMIT Student Innovation Awards 2011.

Seachtain na Gaeilge á chomóradh i gColáiste Ghearóid Naofa

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Le déanaí, cuireadh Fáilte Uí Cheallaigh roimh Phádraig Mac Suibhne ó Dhún na nGall, file cáiliúil na linne seo, chun na scoile. Labhair sé le daltaí ónóracha an chúigiú bliain faoi fhilíocht na hArdteistiméireachta.

Mayo students get green light from the Dragons

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

There were great celebrations in two Castlebar schools last week as Mariyah Zia Janjua from St Joseph’s Secondary School, and Team Envirobriq, from St Gerald’s College made it through to the national final of the Green Dragon Secondary Schools Innovation Challenge. These students really impressed the dragons at the Connacht/Ulster regional heat with their innovative ideas in the environmental category and will be hoping to do the same at the national final in Croke Park on March 26. Here they will battle it out with 25 other finalists in a bid to lay claim to the top prize of €8,000 in development funds to bring their idea to the market.

Now in its second year, the Agri Aware initiative which is supported by Bord Bia and AIB Bank, gives students the opportunity to bring their innovative ideas for the food, agriculture, or environmental sectors, from concept stage, to development of business and marketing plans, right up to pitching it in front of a professional panel of judges.

Ballina students are best in county at School Game Playing Day

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Scoil Naomh Pholl a tSomais, Ballina has won the Mayo county prize for School Game Playing Day 2010 by showing that its pupils had the most fun in the county playing board games. The school is a previous winner and received €200 towards its School Game Playing Day Fund.

Major development for Mayo distance learning students

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Students from Mayo are among those who will benefit from the announcement by The Open College that eLearning will be available to all its students from the middle of the year.

International hairdressing qualification from Mayo College

Fri, Mar 11, 2011

This year, train as a hairdresser at Mayo College, Castlebar, where you will be taught by trained experts and have the option of completing FETAC or City and Guilds courses. The courses on offer fit around your own lifestyle, with both part-time and full-time hairdressing courses on offer.

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