Mayo opera star Margaret Burke-Sheridan will be celebrated with a town-wide trail during Culture Night in Castlebar.

A busy Mayo car park will be closed for two weeks next month. Mayo County Council is to close the Pavilion Road car park in Castlebar from 9pm on Monday, September 1 to 9am on Tuesday, September 16.

Mayo County Council Biodiversity Officer has received funding through the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Local Biodiversity Action Fund to put in place biodiversity enhancement measures for Castlebar Town Park.

At 2.50am, gardaí received a report of a male unconscious after an alleged assault outside a licensed premises on Tucker Street.

Mayo College of Further Education and Training (FET) will be holding an open day in all their locations throughout Mayo on Thursday, September 4th, from 12 noon to 4pm.

Mayo County Council received 18 notifications to convert vacant pubs into housing units over a seven-year period. This was the highest number in the entire country with Limerick next on 11.

Mayo Fine Gael TDs are backing Heather Humphreys bid for a presential nomination for the party.

One of Mayo’s most recognisable and well-loved B&B businesses is celebrating its 50th anniversary today (Tuesday). The Green Bay B&B has been a fixture at the Mall in Castlebar for more than five decades.

A Mayo supermarket is to be demolished and rebuilt. German retail giant Lidl has secured planning permission from Mayo County Council to demolish and rebuild its store at Moneen in Castlebar.

An emergency strategic policy committee (SPC) meeting of Mayo County Council was convened after the local authority returned to the State in the region of €235,000 it failed to spend.

A decision to temporarily suspend mammogram services at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) has been branded “pathetic”.

A leading Mayo solicitors’ practice has announced its expansion as it moves to a formal partnership structure.  J. V.

Several capital projects in Mayo are in limbo as the match funding required to complete them is not available.

A North Mayo councillor has complained that Mayo has received insufficient funding under the Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) to repair minor roads in the county.

A man was trying to “show off” when he twice drove his car into outdoor furniture on a garage forecourt.

A member of Mayo County Council has made an impassioned appeal to revive the tourism industry in one of the county's beauty spots.

A motorist involved in a road traffic collision was invoiced for the cost of the fire brigade attending the scene, even though they made no call seeking the service.

Eight Mayo SPAR stores were honoured at the 2025 SPAR 365 Standards Customer Care Programme for achieving exceptional standards in retailing.

A pair of Brazilian men threw glasses at two other males in separate incidents on the same night.

A new exhibition, entitled 'Future Fossils: Junk or Jewels', has opened at Linenhall Arts Centre.

The National Museum of Ireland at Turlough Park, Castlebar, has just launched a full programme of free summer activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy.

A Castlebar-based county councillor has branded his political career “a disaster” since the abolition of town councils 11 years ago.

Castlebar will echo with the unmistakable sounds of 2-Tone ska this summer as Matt McManamon, former live guitarist for The Specials, takes the stage to support The Specials Ltd at the TF Royal Theatre in Castlebar on Thursday, July 17th.

A most memorable evening took place last Wednesday, July 2nd, as past pupils of Errew Monastery Boys’ School reunited to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the school’s closure in 1975.

A man who left another male with a “foot-long” laceration to his neck has been jailed.

The decision to transfer patients from Mayo University Hospital (MUH) to another hospital for more treatment is generally made by the clinician and the relevant care team involved.

National housing charity Threshold has officially opened its renovated regional office for the west and northwest in Galway City, providing increased capacity for free appointments with its expert advisors.

The three-year cut-off payment point for the Fair Deal scheme kicks in automatically and applicants do not have to apply for the payments to cease.

The outgoing Cathaoirleach of Castlebar Municipal District has said that while Lime Bikes are “a brilliant addition to the town”, they are also “adding problems”.

A Castlebar councillor has claimed that the lack of road markings in the county town is proving “a disaster”.

Mayo County Council has been asked to look into three areas in the Castlebar Municipal District where flooding is a problem.

A number of people have made complaints about the state of the Castlebar River, according to a local councillor.

Members of Castlebar Municipal District are calling on the public to refrain from littering cigarette butts around the town.

A drug overdose contributed to the death of man who was found collapsed on the street. An inquest into the death of Thomas Cody, aged 52, of Tara Court, Castlebar, took place at Ballina Courthouse.

Councillors in Castlebar are calling on the owner of a company whose articulated truck is regularly parked on a cycle lane on the Pontoon Road to attend the next meeting of the authority to address the matter.

Delays in issuing grant approvals for the Vacant Homes Scheme are costing people money, with one applicant from Castlebar already having to pay nearly €2,000 in interest fees to the bank as they await delivery of the funds.

Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien has announced the sites of 53 new high-power recharging hubs to service the expanding electric vehicle (EV) fleet across Ireland's national road network.

Members of the Mayo branch of Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) carried their message seeking an end to the genocide in Gaza into the chamber of Mayo County Council last Friday.

Members of Castlebar Municipal District have congratulated Community Radio Castlebar, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary on the air.

Compulsory purchase of vacant homes and derelict properties will be pursued in cases where owners do not engage with the council to bring them back into residential use, according to the Head of Castlebar Municipal District.

A Castlebar councillor has called on management in Mayo County Council to evict residents who are engaging in anti-social behaviour in a local housing estate.

A total of 4,551 patients referred by their GPs for treatment by a consultant at Mayo University Hospital are on waiting lists that vary between zero and 24 months.

The failure of some councillors to turn up for meetings of the Regional Health Forum for the West and North-West was highlighted at last week's annual general meeting at Merlin Park in Galway.