€1.3 million for Mayo group water schemes

Fri, Oct 31, 2008

Minister for Community, Rural, and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív has announced that he has allocated CLÁR top-up funding of €1,381,995 to group water schemes in the county.

Castlebar and Ballina move up in IBAL rankings

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Castlebar and Ballina were both celebrating earlier this week with the news that they have moved up in the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) standings for 2008. Castlebar saw its ranking shoot up 28 places from number 36 last year and break into the top ten at number eight. Ballina were also celebrating a double-digit rise from number 49 to 37, moving it from a seriously littered town to a moderately littered town.

Student convicted for drink driving

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

A man from Ballina who drove his friends to work the morning after he was out the night before, was convicted, fined and disqualified at Foxford District Court on Tuesday.

vIreland West Knock wants aviation policy anomalies addressed

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

During this week’s meeting at the joint Oireachtas committee on transport, the group MD along with the CEO of Ireland West Airport Knock urged the Government to address and amend a number of aviation policies which are adversely affecting growth at the international airport and which are conferring unfair competitive advantages on other airports in Ireland.

Mobile phone movie to put an end to drink driving

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

The Road Safety Officer in Mayo County Council has launched an October bank holiday weekend road safety campaign with a hard-hitting commercial designed to make motorists think about their driving behaviour.

Motorist fined for speeding in 50kmph zone

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

A driver of a Renault Megane which was detected driving in excess of the speed limit in a 50km zone was convicted and fined at Foxford District Court this week.

Foxford man has ‘first class honours’ in benefit fraud

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

A man in his late fifties who obtained a total of over €28,000 in benefits from the state after he claimed that he was not working was convicted and fined at Foxford District Court after it came to light that the man had in fact been working on a part-time basis.

Private waste operators to be diverted to Rathroen landfill due to rationalisation

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Mayo County Council have announced details of rationalisation plans which aim to bring down the cost of operating their two landfill sites.

‘Horrendous’ amount of rubbish located in Foxford

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Over 100 bags of rubbish which were detected in the Foxford area led to the prosecution of one of the litter offenders at Foxford District Court this week.

Castlebar Farmers’ Market supports Seeds for Africa

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Castlebar Farmers’ Market, which trades every Friday on Market Square, Castlebar, will be raising money to send seeds to farmers in Africa on Friday November 14.

Castlebar Town Council agrees new bond levies for developers

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

Members of Castlebar Town Council voted by five votes to two on Tuesday night to fix a development bond on new housing developments in the town. The new bond will see developers having to lodge a bond of €6,000 per house on developments of up to 10 houses, €5,000 per house on developments of between 11 and 30 houses (a minimum bond of €60,000 must be lodged) and bond of €4,000 per house on developments over 31 houses (a minimum of €150,000 must be lodged).

Schools to feel the pinch of education funding cuts

Fri, Oct 24, 2008

The penny pinching by the Government in last week’s budget will have a detrimental effect on the education of young people, according to two Mayo secondary school principals. Ioseph McGowen, principal of Davitt College, Castlebar told the Mayo Advertiser earlier this week: “It will seriously affect the way we run the school and it will make it nearly impossible to keep it running to the high standards we have set for ourselves.” With bigger class sizes being a reality for schools, Mr McGowen is worried that it will affect the quality of teaching that the students will get. “Having bigger class sizes is no good for either the students or the teachers, we’re looking at loosing between one and two teachers here which will lead to less subject choices for both the Leaving and Junior Certificates.”

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