Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 67 year-old Nicholas Taylor who has been missing since Tuesday.

A Mayo TD has said he shares the concern of the community in relation to plans to provide 120 beds for for International Protection Applicants at a Ballina hotel.

The author of a new book on Michael Lynn believes the disgraced solicitor will go back into the business world when he is released from prison. Journalist Michael O’Farrell has penned Fugitive: The Michael Lynn Story.

Fianna Fáil Midlands Northwest European Election candidate Senator Lisa Chambers has reaffirmed her commitment to advancing cancer care in the west and northwest of Ireland.

The first affordable housing development in Mayo has been approved in principle. Five homes contained within a 50-home development in Westport are to be designated as affordable housing.

Gardaí have charged the three men who were arrested on Tuesday following the seizure of €700,000 worth of cannabis plants and cannabis herb during a search operation in Loughlynn County Roscommon.

The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have said that 120 beds are to be provided for International Protection Applicants in the Twin Trees Hotel on Downhill Road, Ballina.

A south Mayo councillor has called for greater levels of fencing to be installed at a children's playground after it had been vandalised.

The roof of the Convent of Mercy in Ballina would have collapsed within the next ten years if volunteers had not intervened with essential works in the last number of months, it has been revealed.

Pap and Kathryn Murphy of Turas Siar, Clogher, Belmullet were recipients of a Mayo Cathaoirleach Award for their Contribution to the Preservation and Promotion of the Irish Language (Gaeltacht-based) in Breaffy Hotel on March 7.