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The Annual Pioneer Association and Matt Talbot Pilgrimage will take place to Knock Shrine on Sunday July 21. Ceremonies commence at 2.30pm with anointing of the sick and concelebrated Mass at 3pm. All are welcome.

You have to love July. Festival fever and all that. And this year is a little bit more special with all the Gathering events happening across the county.

The National Museum of Ireland, Country Life, Turlough in association the French Embassy in Ireland is delighted to present 1689 - 2012, The Irish and France: Three Centuries of Military Relations, an exhibition originally produced by Musée de l’Armée, Paris (the Army Museum, Paris).

Twenty four of the 45 housing estates in the Ballina electoral area are still not under the control of Mayo County Council, a meeting of the electoral area committee was told this week.

There was full throated praise for all those involved in getting the new Garda monitored CCTV system in Ballina finally up and running at the May meeting of the local authority this week. At Tuesday night’s meeting Sgt Mandy Gaynor gave the elected members a full presentation on the system that currently has 18 linked up monitored cameras throughout the town, with four more to come on stream shortly and the possibility to add more later.

As part of the Mayo North Gathering festival, which takes place from August 1 to 9, the recently opened Jackie Clarke Collection in Ballina will mount a specially themed exhibition which will be of particular interest to emigrants and others coming to Mayo for the festival.

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has warmly welcomed the announcement of funding to a number of harbours in County Mayo under the Harbours Scheme from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Details of In Humbert’s Footsteps, Mayo’s flagship Gathering event, were unveiled at a public meeting in Castlebar on Wednesday night.

A man who took part in a staged robbery from a filling station in Ballina did so in order to pay back money owed as part of a drug debt.

A man who took part in a staged robbery from a filling station in Ballina did so in order to pay back money owed as part of a drug debt.