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Mayo Music Awards go to local musicians

by Anthony Hickey

Vickers Vimy, a five-piece Mayo-based folk collective, one of the recipients of the Mayo County Council Arts Office Music Recording Assistance Awards for 2013.

Mayo County Council Arts Office has awarded its annual Music Recording Assistance Awards for 2013 to Vickers Vimy, a five-piece Mayo-based folk collective, and Ballyhaunis-based rock and electronic band, Race the Flux. The €800 award will be used to assist recipients to record their music. Mayo County Council’s Music Recording Assistance Award has shown once […]

Northgate to create 150 healthcare jobs in Castlebar

by Anthony Hickey

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny welcoming the announcement of 150 new jobs which are being created in Mayo by Northgate with L to R: Peter Hynes - Mayo County Manager; Joanne Grehan – CEO, Mayo County Enterprise Board; Noel Daly - Chair West/North West Hospitals Group; An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD; Joe Bradley - Executive Director, Northgate IS; Mr Bill Maher – CEO, West/North West Hospitals Group; John Killeen – Board Member, West/North West Hospitals Group.

Northgate Information Solutions is to create an additional 150 jobs in County Mayo with the company looking at a number of premises in Castlebar as a location for their new premises. Northgate already employs 100 people in the newborn hearing screening programme in Ireland and the additional jobs will be in the healthcare and public […]

Composting demo site for community opens in Ballina

by Anthony Hickey

Stop Food Waste's composting expert, Craig Benton, with Ballina Town Mayor Cllr Johnnie O'Malley; Mayo Co Council's Environment Awareness Officer, Sharon Cameron; Mayo North East LEADER's, Gerry Mulherin; Rural Social Scheme's, Des Ruttledge and Karen Burmese gardener, Tyi Shwee, all contribute to the "worm bin" at the official opening of Ballina's new Composting Demonstration Site in the the Bishop's Garden, Ballina. Photo: Henry Wills

A composting demonstration site has been opened in Ballina for the local community to visit and learn about composting and prevention of food waste The new composting site is located in the Karen/GIY Community Garden, adjacent to St. Muredach’s college.   It was officially opened by Mayor Johnny O’Malley at a ceremony attended by representatives […]

Mayo County Council announces Tyrone Guthrie Bursary Scheme 2013 recipients

by Anthony Hickey

Michelle O'Sullivan (left) and Joanna Hopkins, Mayo County Council Tyrone Guthrie Regional Bursary Scheme 2013 recipients.

Mayo County Council has announced that its Tyrone Guthrie Regional Bursary Scheme 2013 recipients are visual artist Joanna Hopkins and poet Michelle O’Sullivan. Joanna Hopkins holds a BA in Fine Art from Limerick School of Art and Design and an MA with Distinction in Social Practice and the Creative Environment, also from Limerick School of […]

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