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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Chamber Ball this weekend

Fri, Dec 19, 2014

Castlebar Chamber is holding its Chamber Ball tomorrow (Saturday) in Breaffy House Resort.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stephanie Kilkenny is a natural with new skincare business

Fri, Dec 19, 2014

A nature loving cosmetician from Castlebar has launched a new business making and selling her own range of 100 per cent natural, hand made, skin care products.

All Star Cillian O’Connor flies the green and red at Old Trafford

Fri, Dec 19, 2014

Mayo footballer Cillian O’Connor may be more familiar with a GAA pitch than a soccer field but he played a blinder nonetheless when he donned the new Mayo kit for the 75,000 strong crowd at Manchester United’s hallowed home ground, Old Trafford, last weekend.

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