Westport Greenway to be extended
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
Phase 2 of the Greenway in Westport is under construction, Westport town councillors were informed last week.
Read more ...Anxiety support group for men
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
A men’s Anxiety Support Group meeting will be held in the Family Resource Centre, Abbey Street, Ballina (Ardnaree Road) on Thursday February 24 at 8pm.
Read more ...Ballina councillors pay tribute to late Cllr Jimmy Sheridan
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
The members of Ballina Town Council adjourned their monthly meeting this week until next Wednesday as a mark of respect to former councillor Jimmy Sheridan who passed away recently.
Read more ...Ring to keep driving on N5 project
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
Fine Gael TD Michael Ring, has said this week that he will be putting the upgrade of the N5 front and centre if he gets re-elected next week. The Westport based TD was responding to comments from county engineer Joe Beirne at the February meeting of Mayo County Council this week where he said: “The prospects of any major road project in the county is now not good.” Beirne was speaking at the meeting where the councillors were discussing the road grants to the local authority from central Government for the coming year. The grants for national roads saw an increase of €7 million this year from the previous year, however the majority of the increase was to be spent on pavement improvements on the existing national road primary road structure and on national secondary roads. Mr Beirne told the meeting that while there was an increase in the overall grant there was no grant this year for the N26 scheme from Ballina and it has essentially been shelved for the year.
Read more ...Mayo smokers spending some €1,500 per year on cigarettes
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
New research from Aviva Health Insurance reveals that a fifth of Mayo people who filled out the Aviva online health check are smokers, with a higher proportion of females (21 per cent) than males (19 per cent) smoking. The research also revealed that Mayo smokers consume an average of 11 cigarettes every day, costing the smoker approximately €132 each month and €1,584 per year, despite the continuing bite of the recession.
Read more ...€30k to be spent on festivals in Westport
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
Westport Town Council is to spend €30,000 in 2011 in the promotion of festivals in the town, as passed in the recent town council’s budget.
Read more ...Driving ban for man who blocked disabled bay
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
A 20-year-old man who blocked a disabled bay was convicted and fined €500 and disqualified from driving at Castlebar District Court this week.
Read more ...FG councillor ‘deemed to have resigned’ from NUIG authority
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
The elected members of Mayo County Council were forced to vote in a new member of the local authority to sit on the governing authority of the National University of Ireland, Galway this week. The vacancy on the governing authority at the third level institution came about after the council executive received correspondence from the university which informed them that Cllr Henry Kenny who had been appointed to the authority was “deemed to have resigned his seat”.
Read more ...Woman stole twenty two items of clothing
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
A woman who stole 22 items, which she concealed in a child’s buggy, was sentenced to prison this week.
Read more ...Fine for man who shouted at gardaí
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
A Kiltimagh man who exited a nightclub in Ballyhaunis and called gardaí sitting in a nearby patrol car “f**king wankers” was fined €300 in Claremorris District Court this week.
Read more ...Mayo General overcrowding crisis deepens
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
There has been a 40 per cent increase in the number of people treated on trolleys at Mayo General Hospital in the last two years.
Read more ...Six months in prison for Ballyglass man
Fri, Feb 18, 2011
A man who was threatening and abusive to staff and customers of McDonald’s in Castlebar was sentenced to six months in prison at the district court this week.
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