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A collection of more than 50,000 images will be donated to the county of Mayo this weekend. Internationally acclaimed photographer Liam Lyons will make his collection available to the people of Mayo, a collection that documents the public and private events that occurred in Mayo over the second half of the 20th century.

Tunes and pints to celebrate the end of summer (nearly!) The Time Machine presents... Surf Mayo End of Summer Party in Blousers, James Street, Westport, on Friday night, August 23.

Three branches of the leftist political movement, People Before Profit, have been launched in Mayo and the party hopes to field a candidate in this constituency in the next general election.

Tesco Ireland has announced the launch of an exciting initiative, Tesco Community Fund, which will see €1million donated annually to local good causes throughout Ireland. TV presenter, Kathryn Thomas, met with the store managers from Mayo recently, to support the launch of the initiative and is calling on all local good causes in Mayo to get involved. Every six weeks, each Tesco store in Mayo will donate up to €1,000 (€500 in smaller stores) between three local good causes in its local community. Customers will decide how the funding is shared by voting for their preferred cause in store. From this week on, every time customers shop in any Tesco store in Mayo, they will receive a token of goodwill to place in the donation box of the local good cause they would most like to support. Every six weeks, the number of tokens is counted and up to €1,000 is distributed proportionally between three local good causes. The more tokens a local good cause gets the larger share of the donation they will receive.

The recently launched Mayo Academy of Performing Arts (MAPA) has been awarded €10,000 in funding.

A series of memorial walks is taking place across Mayo on Sunday (July 20).

Eleven of the 39 small primary schools across the country that are set to lose a teacher and classroom posts in September are in Mayo, it has emerged.

The management team at the Royal Quarter have announced the appointment of Martina Nicholson as the sales director of the Mayo Convention Centre. A native of Donegal, Nicholson has been with the Harlequin Hotel since 2012, where she has occupied the role of revenue and marketing manager. Nicholson will bring a wealth of experience to the position and is looking forward to a bright future for the Mayo Convention Centre. The hospitality industry is well and truly in her blood with 20 years of hotel experience. Prior to working at the Harlequin Hotel, she worked for five years as a manager at the Athlone Springs Hotel, one of the Midland’s main conference venues, as well as experience at the Menlo Park Hotel and Conference Centre Galway.

He may have parted ways with his party but former Fine Gael representative turned Independent Seamus Weir is far from out in the cold.

boost to the Ballina area when he announced that Hollister Incorporated, a speciality medical products company, is to invest €80 million at their facility in Ballina. Hollister is one of the largest employers in Ballina and contributed more than €60 million to the Irish economy in 2013. Hollister Ireland was established in Ballina in 1976. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hollister Incorporated and currently employs over 500 people in both new product development and manufacturing.