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The Chieftains are now recognised for bringing traditional Irish music to the world's attention. They have uncovered the wealth of traditional Irish music that has accumulated over the centuries, making the music their own with a style that is as exhilarating as it is definitive.

Galway’s Decadent Theatre brings the compelling and powerful contemporary drama Country Music to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday October 7 at 8pm. Country Music is a story of crime and redemption. Spanning more than 20 years, this is the life story of illiterate loser Jamie Carris, a troubled 18-year-old whose recklessness leaves him facing a tragic future after being sent to prison for murder. What made this young man a killer? How will he survive the harsh reality of prison life? Can he ever rebuild his life?

Today (October 2) the new 12,000sq ft extension at Horkan’s Lifestyle and Garden Centre in Turlough will be officially opened with a fashion show taking place to mark the occasion.

Castlebar Chamber is hosting an information evening to showcase Castlebar, Everyone’s Invited — the Destination Castlebar project. The event will take place in the Royal Theatre on Monday October 12 at 7pm and is aimed particularly at business owners.

A new report from the Western Development Commission which analyses previously unreleased Census data to present an in-depth study of travel to work patterns in Castlebar and the surrounding areas, has come up with some findings that those working in the Castlebar area commute more than the State average; that women account for the highest proportion of those employed in Castlebar town, and that education, health, and social work are the main sectors in which people are employed in the Castlebar catchment area.

The Mayor of Castlebar hit out this week at the news that 12 jobs in the Ambulance Control Centre in Castlebar will be lost to a newly designed facility in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal. Independent councillor Michael Kilcoyne told the Mayo Advertiser: “Now you are going to get put through to a control centre in Donegal who will then tell the ambulance drivers where the call is from, communication can break down at the best of times, and they are not going to know the geography of Mayo like a person from here would and incidents could happen. But it just so happens also that the Tánaiste can deliver some new jobs to her own constituency while the people of Mayo will be left to suffer.”

The new Mayo Childline Unit will be launched next Tuesday, October 6, by Minister for Labour Affairs Dara Calleary.

Two Mayo companies have scooped top accolades at the Good Food Ireland awards in the K Club in Straffan, Co Kildare.

“The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea, in a beautiful pea-green boat…”

Mayo TD Beverley Flynn has welcomed the decision of Castlebar Town Council to proceed with the construction of the link road between Aldi and St Gerald’s College.