An Bord Pleanala has overturned a Mayo County Council decision and granted planning permission for an amusement and entertainment centre in Ballina.

A lack of affordable housing is having a devastating impact in Castlebar, a local election candidate has claimed.

Full services in two day care centres in Co Sligo are set to be restored in the coming weeks.

A Mayo election candidate is calling for the roll-out of a mobile X-ray service for the county.

It’s one of a number of local schools to amalgamate, bringing an end single-sex education in the town. The female-only Mercy and Presentation College have also amalgamated to become High Cross College. They will also take on male students.

John O’Mahony was impacted greatly by the transfer of South Mayo to Galway-West in 2013

There were 294 patients on trolleys at Mayo University Hospital in August, which was the second worst August for overcrowding at the facility ever recorded. The four hospitals in the west had more than 2,200 patients awaiting treatment.

The funeral arrangements for a highly-regarded retired nurse who died tragically in Kiltimagh earlier this week have been announced. Mary B.