A Castlebar business will represent Mayo at the National Enterprise Awards next week. Cytidel, a cyber intelligence company, will travel to the National Enterprise Awards in the Round Room at the Mansion House in Dublin on Thursday, May 23.

Progress is being made in relation to several vacant social houses in the Ballina Municipal District, writes Paul O'Malley.

A Mayo councillor has called on the local authority to reinvest any rates received from Ireland West Airport back into the airport. Cllr Gerry Murray made the comments at a recent meeting of Mayo County Council.

The woman who died in Thursday's three-car collision on the N17 at Ballindine near Claremorris has been named locally as Andrea Gornowicz.

Met Éireann has stated that there will be a mixture of clouds, bright spells and scattered showers across Connacht and Mayo this Saturday, May 18.

Positive news is expected on an Affordable Housing project for Castlebar in the coming weeks. There has been frustration over the lack of action by the Department of Housing on an application for 15 homes in Castlebar made by Mayo County Council.

Uisce Éireann, formerly Irish Water, has commenced works at the Mayfield Pumping Station in Claremorris, according to local councillor Tom Connolly.

The three Mayo towns of Swinford, Crossmolina and Balla are set to benefit from a Town Centre First Support Fund. The first ever Town Team Support Fund will deliver funding for communities that have never had a Town Team before.

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, in association with J Keane & Sons Ltd in Roscommon, will raffle a car this September. The Volkswagen Polo Life is worth in the region of €30,000.

Ballina is to apply to become the Volunteer Capital of Europe in 2026.