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1 week ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
Minister of State for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Alan Dillon TD, has said he is willing to debate fellow Mayo TD Paul Lawless after he accused the former Mayo footballer of ‘lazy spin and political cowardice’.
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1 week ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
A complaint has been filed to Mayo County Council after the parking of numerous cars in driveways and on green areas caused disruption to residents in local estates. Photos posted on social media also showed marks left on grassy areas by cars which parked in nearby estates during the Westport Marathon, which drew thousands of people to the west Mayo town.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
A local representative has hit out at people who left a large quantity of rubbish by the shores of Lough Carra. Cllr Patsy O’Brien called for people to bring their rubbish home with them after bags of rubbish were left strewn along the Brownstown area of the south Mayo lake. The recent sunny weather has drawn large numbers of people to lakes and beaches around Mayo, including Lough Carra.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
The go-ahead for a new business at an industrial estate in Swinford has been welcomed as a positive development for the area. Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District Council have formally proposed the disposal of a 1.065 site to MG Plant Spares, Ltd, Cloonlara, Old Dublin Road. The purchaser intends to build a facility that will create up to 30 jobs on sites 17 and 18 at Swinford Industrial Park.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
You’ve heard of School of Rock, now here’s Rock of Ages! Twenty-four hours after the curtain rose over in Westport’s Town Hall Theatre for Rice College’s School of Rock, the students of Claremorris kicked off their three-night run of Rock of Ages. The two shows are similar (they left Mayo’s woodwind and brass players short of work and good guitar players and drummers in high demand, for starters) but different.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
Lawless accuses ESB of ‘cynical’ and ‘unjust’ move by passing Storm Éowyn costs onto Mayo customersOisín McGovern Mayo county councillor Deirdre Lawless has labelled the ESB as ‘cynical’ and ‘unjust’ after a number of her constituents saw their electricity bills rise following Storm Éowyn. Storm Éowyn caused tens of millions of damage when it struck the country on January 24, leaving thousands of Mayo people without power.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
THE least important person in Westport’s Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday evening was this lowly keyboard jockey from The Mayo News. The most important people were the people in the audience, who shunned the serene spring sunshine to fill the venue to well over three-quarters capacity for the opening night of Rice College’s production of School of Rock: The Musical.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
SEVEN pyrite-affected households in Westport’s Páirc na Coille that could avail of a top-up to their pyrite redress grant are still awaiting payments due to the delay in establishing Dáil committees. Under proposed amendments to the pyrite redress scheme, eligible applicants will be entitled to a one-off retrospective payment to reflect the increase in the rates of payment under the Defective Concrete Block Redress Scheme. The government agreed to a ten percent increase in the rates last October.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
“YOU want heavy? Metallica give you heavy!”So said Metallica front-man and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield at manys a gig. Well, if Mr Hetfield is anywhere around south Mayo in the next few days, he doesn’t even need to pick up a guitar to hear some good, fun, heavy music.
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2 weeks ago | 
mayonews.ie | Oisín McGovern
THE 809-year-old Ballintubber Abbey took its first step towards a multi-million euro development with the launch of its development programme, new website and strategic plan for 2025-2028. The launch was described as ‘a very momentous day’ for the historic building, which is widely known as ‘the abbey that refused to die’. Last year, €5.8 million was allocated under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund to fund the construction of the Ballintubber Abbey Cultural and Heritage Visitor Centre.
