Gritting of roads will impact on regional and local roads grants
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The announcement this week that €20,370,746 has been granted to Mayo County Council under the 2010 Regional and Local Roads Programme, the third highest allocation in the country, which was welcomed by Mayo TDs Dara Calleary and Beverley Flynn, was described as a shortfall by the acting director of services with Mayo County Council, Michael Mongan, who outlined that in the past two years that this grant has seen a dramatic decrease.
Read more ...Priest offers quickie Masses
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A Ballyhaunis priest has a novel approach to making sure that parishioners who are stuck for time are able to attend Mass by offering a 15-minute Mass.
Read more ...Crossmolina man threatened sergeant that he is a ‘dead man’
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A 21-year-old man who threatened a garda sergeant was convicted of being threatening and abusive at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.
Read more ...Mayo Marist brother convicted of sexually abusing four schoolboys
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A former Marist brother and primary school teacher has been convicted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of 35 charges of sexually abusing four young boys at a Sligo school over 40 years ago.
Read more ...CRC Oireachtas broadcast to be repeated tomorrow
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Community Radio Castlebar made history this week when it became the first community radio station to broadcast live from the Communications Unit of the Houses of the Oireachtas on Kildare Street in Dublin.
Read more ...If women had been involved, as they are now, the response to clerical sex abuse would have been different
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The Archbishop of Tuam, Dr Michael Neary, has told the priests of the diocese that Pope Benedict asked for the forgiveness of the clerical sex abuse victims during a meeting with Irish bishops on February 15.
Read more ...€3.2 million for St Colman’s Day Care Centre
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The HSE has sanctioned funding of €3.2 million for St Colman’s towards the provision of a new day care centre in Bunnacurry, Achill, according to Minister of State Dara Calleary.
Read more ...Ballina man called gardaí ‘pigs’
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A 31-year-old man who shouted abuse at gardaí was before Ballina District Court this week.
Read more ...Reek pilgrim drove drunk
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
A 53-year-old, married father of six who, after climbing the Reek, went for a few beers and then drove back to Ballina, was disqualified from driving at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.
Read more ...N26 refused — road would have been intrusion of Moy River Valley
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The decision yesterday (Thursday) by An Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for the long awaited stage two N26 Ballina to Bohola scheme has been met with shock and disbelief.
Read more ...Fine Gael councillors to conduct weekly picket against head shops
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
The four Castlebar Fine Gael town councillors Ger Deere, Noreen Heston, Eugene McCormack, and Brendan Henaghan, have decided that they will conduct a weekly picket to protest against the rise of head shops in the town.
Read more ...Gardaí to clamp down on double parked taxis
Thu, Feb 25, 2010
Superintendent Willie Keaveney gave an undertaking to deal with the issue of double parked taxis in Castlebar at a meeting of the joint policing committee for the town.
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