Councillors and officials still at loggerheads over plan
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
The first meeting of the new Planning, Environment and Agriculture Strategic Policy Committee of Mayo County Council saw the long running issue of the county development plan get a long airing between councillors and officials.
Read more ...Máirtín O Maicín launches book of Irish writings
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
One of Mayo’s leading promoters of the Irish language and culture, Máirtín G Ó Maicín, launched a new book of his writings in the library in Castlebar yesterday (Thursday) evening.
Read more ...1914 Christmas truce to be commemorated in Peace Park
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
The famous Soldiers’ Christmas Truce of 1914, between German troops and the Allied troops, happened exactly, 100 years ago this year, it was by any standards an extraordinary event. That unique and historic event will be recalled and commemorated in the Mayo Peace Park, at 2.30pm, on Christmas Eve.
Read more ...Ring welcomes further approval for works at Rossow Bends
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring this week warmly welcomed the announcement by the National Roads Authority that further road works will take place on the N59 Rossow Bends at Kilmeena, Westport. The N59 Rossow Bends scheme, between Newport and Westport, is 1.8km in length and continues from the N59 Kilbride Scheme which was completed 2012. The Rossow Bends section is part of the overall N59 Westport to Mulranny Road Improvement Scheme.
Minister Ring said: “The existing road and junctions at Rossow are extremely deficient in cross section, alignment, and visibility. The Great Western Greenway runs close to and parallel to the N59 in this area and it crosses the N59 at-grade at this location, along a non-overtaking section of the road where visibility is deficient. The proposed road has type three single carriageway construction being constructed off-line, with a 2.5m wide cycleway alongside for 1.2km of its length. The scheme will remove the at-grade Greenway crossing at Kilmeena (replacing it with an underpass) and improve six existing side road junctions.
Read more ...Taoiseach opens new Hospice Development at Ballina District Hospital
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny officially opened the newly extended and refurbished Ballina District Hospital last Monday, December 1 which was completed at a cost of over €1m of which €250,000 was provided by the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation.
Read more ...‘Fairly damning’ report on Mulranny ambulance blackspot
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
A report labelling Mulranny an “ambulance blackspot” has been described by a county councillor Lisa Chambers as “fairly damning”.
Read more ...Crash site junction putting schoolchildren’s lives at risk
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
Claremorris based councillor, Tom Connolly, said he is dreading the day he wakes up to news of a road traffic fatality involving schoolchildren at a dangerous junction outside a Gaelscoil just off the N17 at Lochan na mBan.
Read more ...New CELTA course starting in the new year
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), Teaching English as a foreign language, or TEFL, is a popular choice among graduates who want to go travelling or people wishing to change career. “There are many courses and it’s all a bit bewildering,” said Mary Grennan, director of International House Galway. “You need a course which is accepted by quality schools, such as the CELTA — it’s the most recognised ELT qualification in the world.”
Why is the CELTA so famous? “It’s been in existence since 1962, when it was written by the founder of IH, John Haycraft, and it’s now administered by the University of Cambridge,” Ms Grennan explained. The CELTA is accepted at the best language schools worldwide. “It’s amazing, there can’t be many courses where someone finishes up on a Friday and finds themselves teaching in Barcelona the following Monday, as happened recently to a CELTA trainee - and without a word of Spanish.”
Read more ...Mayo stockpiling salt and ready for winter’s worst
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
Mayo County Council is stockpiling salt and is well prepared should there be another ‘big freeze’, similar to the winters of 2009 and 2010.
Read more ...Eight very worthy projects get Lotto funding
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
Mayo’s lotto luck in 2014 has been well reported by now.
Read more ...Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh to launch new scheme Oscail an Doras in Claremorris
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
Legendary broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh will be in Claremorris today, Friday December 5 to launch Oscail an Doras, a simple and imaginative initiative that gives people the opportunity to use their Irish on a daily basis in shops and businesses in Claremorris. The scheme will commence in 11 businesses in the town on that weekend, including the post office, library, Cúram, CLÁR IRD, Frame Productions, Flynn’s Pharmacy, Green’s, Phillips’ Menswear, McWilliam Park Hotel, Warde’s Bar, and Townley Medical Practice.
Read more ...Time to take domestic abuse out of the shadows
Fri, Dec 05, 2014
A number of ceremonies to remember the 204 women in Ireland who have been brutally murdered since 1996 are taking place throughout the county as part of the international gender violence awareness campaign - 16 Days of Action.
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