Christmas comes early for Westport pupils
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
While many children around the country were scribbling Christmas wish lists to Santa for a coveted Frozen doll or the latest Lego kit, 315 young pupils at Scoil Phadraig, Westport, composed a heartfelt festive wish of a very different kind - addressed to the Minister for Education, Jan O’Sullivan.
Read more ...Homeowners not acting on radon risk
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
A grant scheme has been mooted to assist householders in Mayo to protect themselves against the deadly, cancer causing gas - radon.
Read more ...State lab prioritising petrol stretching tests
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
The number of complaints of suspected petrol stretching in Mayo has almost doubled since the end of September with the Revenue Commissioners and gardaí now investigating 222 from this county alone.
Read more ...Mayo farm payments welcomed
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
The latest payments of €3.5 million made to beef and sheep farmers in Mayo last week under the Beef Genomics Scheme and Grassland Sheep Scheme brings the level of payments in the county in 2014 to almost €87 million.
That figure includes Single Farm Payments, the Agri-Environment Options Scheme I and II (AEOS), the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS), and the Disadvantaged Area Scheme (DAS).
Read more ...One year after daylight shooting, gardaí appeal for new witnesses
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
Exactly one year to the day after Owen Maughan was gunned down in broad daylight at the Top Oil filling station at Moneen, Castlebar, Superintendent Pat Diskin issued a renewed appeal for any information which might assist in the murder investigation.
Read more ...Christmas food appeal success
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
Some 5,340 meals has been collected by Lions Club and Tesco volunteers in Tesco stores in Mayo during a two-day Christmas food appeal.
Tesco has announced it will also top up the local Mayo donations by 30 per cent.
Read more ...Comer re-elected ICMSA president
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
Castlebar farmer John Comer was comfortably re-elected as president of the Irish Creamery Milk Supplier Association on Wednesday.
Read more ...Chamber Ball this weekend
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
Castlebar Chamber is holding its Chamber Ball tomorrow (Saturday) in Breaffy House Resort.
Read more ...Story of Achill’s trailblazing aviator Nancy Corrigan for TG4
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
A new documentary charting the extraordinary story of an Achill emigrant who became one of Amercia’s most elite female aviators in the 1940s and the first woman to train male fighter pilots in World War II is to be broadcast on TG4 on Tuesday, January 6.
Read more ...Big thrill seekers fly in for Erris waves
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
Two of the best known kitesurfers in the world of extreme watersports boarded a plane in South Africa and headed straight to north Mayo last week when their tide and chart watching predicted it would be the number one spot on the planet for catching big waves and wind.
Read more ...Mayo Deputy hits out at rumoured Ray D’Arcy salary
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
A sizeable number of Today FM’s listeners may have been disappointed over Ray D’Arcy’s surprise move to RTÉ but one Mayo Deputy was particulary irked by the return of the top rated presenter to the station where he first made his name in the ‘90s.
Read more ...Local photographer launches Headshots for Hospice
Fri, Dec 19, 2014
Local photographer Keith Heneghan is offering professional headshot photography at his studio on Linenhall Street, Castlebar, for the month of December for just €60 in a bid to raise funds for Mayo Roscommon Hospice.
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