Ballina trio for music showcase; award-winning drama comes to town

Businesses on either side of the River Moy in Ballina are losing customers due to constant traffic congestion.

Members of Ballina MD held a ten-minute recess at their meeting last week to pay their respects to a number of local families who suffered bereavement in recent times.

Councillors in Ballina have extended sympathy to the family of the late Richard Loftus, from Ballina, who died recently after a courageous battle with illness. He passed away on his 20th birthday.

Several private housing developments that have been granted planning permission in Ballina may not proceed due to viability issues, a local councillor has claimed.

More than one hundred people filled Kennedy Glasgow House on Wednesday night last to hear Eman Mohammed, Gaza’s pioneering photojournalist and Senior TED Fellow, speak at Spoonfed, a Ballina Fringe Festival event hosted by the Mayo branch of the ...

His reception at Glastonbury a few years ago won’t be a patch on the welcome that David Keenan can expect when he plays two intimate gigs in Ballina this week, writes David Dwane.

Two of the major hits of the Scranton Fringe Festival in the USA are coming to the Ballina Arts Centre at the end of this month.

Tributes have been paid at a meeting of Ballina Municipal District to the late Mary Flannelly (nee Reape), of Corballa, Co Sligo.

Mayo County Council has been asked to carry out "urgent" drainage works at Ardagh to prevent future flooding.

A number of instances of anti-social behaviour around Ballina town were outlined at a meeting of municipal district councillors last week.

A familiar Ballina voice and face will feature in a new RTÉ Radio 1 documentary series, Coming Home: Stories of Being Chinese-Irish, which commences on Sunday next, October 12, at 7. 30pm.

On Friday, May 9, a determined team of 53 cyclists - 11 women and 42 men - set off from Westmanstown, Co Dublin, on a two-day 300km charity cycle to Cong.

Swap Shop Clothes, books, toys, plants and schoolbags are on the list for the monthly Pop-Up Swap Shop in The Mary Robinson Centre, Emmett Street, Ballina, which will take place this coming Saturday, October 11.

A Mayo champion of circular living was honoured at the inaugural Circular. ie Full Circle Awards held in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin recently.

Warm tributes were paid at Ballina District Court last Friday to the late Richard Loftus, ‘Siena’, Foxford Road, Ballina, a popular young man from a well-known local family of legal professionals, who passed away after a courageously fought battle ...

Cafe-style music night; cash winners in Credit Union Draw; folk trio for Ballina show

Ballina is counting down to next month's Pumpkin Patch event. All proceeds from the unique autumnal event will go directly to Ballina’s Christmas Lights Fund and members of the organising comittee are hard at work on the finishing touches.

The Mary Robinson Centre in Ballina hosted a special celebration at the weekend to mark the achievements of six Mayo communities longlisted in The Irish Times Ireland’s Greenest Places Competition 2025.

Ballina One Act Drama Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary at Ballina Arts Centre on Friday, October 31st and Saturday and Sunday, November 1st and 2nd.

A local councillor has received confirmation that a new reservoir with increased capacity will be built in the Bonniconlon area.

Ballina cobblers Michael Rice and Harry McCafferty are almost a throwback to another time, writes EDWIN MCGREAL

Global Kitchen volunteers needed The Global Kitchen returns this year as part of the Ballina Fringe Festival. Volunteers are being recruited to help out with the event, which will be hosted by St Dymphna's School, Ballina.

Ballina’s strong humanitarian stand with Gaza during recent and current afflictions on its people has been notable.

The inaugural North Mayo Connect Disability Resource Fair in Ballina later this week will be the first of its kind to take place in County Mayo.

Ballina Fringe Festival will welcome internationally-celebrated local author next month. Born in Canada, Colin Barrett grew up in Knockmore and his connection with Ballina remains strong.

Ballina is to be part of a series of musical evenings which will take place at six different venues along the Atlantic coast from Letterkenny to Cobh.

Against all odds, a senior rescue dog from Ballina has been named one of six winners in Butternut Box’s Dogs Deserve Fame competition.

Members of Mayo County Council have extended votes of sympathy to two local families who lost family members recently.

During a visit to St Dympna’s School in Ballina last Friday, Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, Dara Calleary TD, announced €1. 7 million to deliver 32 vehicles under the 2025 CLÁR programme.

From October 3rd to 12th, Ballina will once again be home to Ballina Fringe Festival - a celebration of arts, music, storytelling and creative expression happening right here in our region.

Afternoon of music for children in Gaza An afternoon of music for children in Gaza on Saturday next will offer the people of Ballina a chance to show their support for this critical humanitarian cause while also enjoying some beautiful and uplifting ...

Comhaltas Ceoltoirí Éireann is staging a specially commissioned show entitled 'Caírdeas' in Ballina Arts Centre on Wednesday, October 29.

A unique charity cycle will see a group traverse the Great Western Greenway in West Mayo on high nelly bicycles. The vintage bike escapade is the brainchild of well-known Mayo woodturner Willie Creighton.

Ballina is set to sparkle this Culture Night as the town’s laneways come alive with music, art and atmosphere for the Laneways & Sessions Music Trail on Friday next, September 19th, from 6pm to 11pm.

Mayo County Council has adopted a plan to increase its annual housing supply targets from 542 to 1,111 a year, with a view to facilitating the construction of 4,444 new houses between now and 2028.

Greater space, more activities and a dedicated drop-in centre will enhance the role of Craoibhín Ballina in the community when it moves to a new location later in the autumn.

'In the Wake of Suicide' is a powerful one-man play, written and performed by Stephen Doyle.

Fines totalling seven figures were accumulated in one part of the county.

A Ballina solicitor has urged the new district court judge for Mayo to push for improvements to “inadequate” facilities at the local courthouse.

Dr Patrick J. McNamara, first-born son of Padraic and Eileen McNamara, Bohernasup, and a distinguished alumnus of St Muredach's College, has spent his career pushing against the boundaries of what medical science once deemed impossible.

Novel Bord na nÓg fundraiser A super-Sunday afternoon of family fun and games with more than a dash of colour is what will await those taking part in a novel Ballina Stephenites GAA Club Bord na nÓg fundraiser on September 14.

How a Mayo man became the architect of miracles in America's most unlikely frontier of medicine