The charitable foundation that will manage the Mary Robinson Centre (MRC) in Ballina has told Mayo County Council it is committed to paying €1. 1 million for construction work on the facility.

A local councillor has welcomed the publishing of a Part 8 Planning Notice for the Céide Coastal Walkway, a proposed coastal walkway from Downpatrick Head to Céide in Ballycastle.

Three people are due to appear before Roscommon District Court this morning in connection with the theft of tools and tradesmen’s equipment. As part of ongoing Garda investigations, two men and a woman were arrested and charged.

An ambitious bid to bring the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil back to Ballina will be discussed at a meeting in the town next Thursday.

A popular north Mayo music festival will not go ahead this year after the committee who ran the event stepped down and a new committee did not emerge. Organisers have announced that the Killala Live Festival will not proceed this year.

A Mayo councillor who has been vocal in his criticism of the Mary Robinson Centre in Ballina has hit back at online detractors. Westport-based Fine Gael Cllr Peter Flynn appeared on RTÉ's Prime Time last week.

County Sligo woman Eve McDowell, who was stalked by Igor Lewandowski while attending University of Galway, will feature in a new TV documentary tonight.

Mayo Fine Gael councillor Ger Deere is calling for election ‘pole’ posters to be banned in the county ahead of this year’s local elections.

There are more than 120 patients on trolleys at the four hospitals in the west today.

Mayo’s National Football League clash with Derry has forced a change in time for the St Patrick’s Day parade in Castlebar. The Mayo footballers meet Derry at MacHale Park on Sunday, March 17, at 3. 45pm.