Coca-Cola Ballina has confirmed it plans to submit an application to Mayo County Council for a 20. 4MW solar farm on land owned by the company at the rear of its manufacturing facility on the outskirts of the town.

As part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Ballina Salmon Festival, all past and present winners of the Lady of the Moy are being invited to celebrate the past six decades of the famous competition.

A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with a criminal damage in Ballyhaunis yesterday. A premises on Main Street in the town has been boarded up with barricades in place as a result. Gardai were called to St Gerald’s Court at around 8.

Ballaghaderreen is set to revive the tradition of the May Day Fair on Bank Holiday Sunday, May 6 next.

A study of Europa Oil & Gas’s planned Mayo offshore gas project has found that its expected emissions would be significantly lower than either domestically produced or imported gas currently used here, the company has said.

Funding under the Town and Village Renewal Scheme has been announced for three projects in the county. A €474,145 grant has been made available for the redevelopment of a new Order of Malta headquarters in Castlebar.

A 4km pilgrim path at Croagh Patrick and state-of-the-art tourism hub in Erris will be officially opened by Minister Heather Humphrey’s later today.

Fencing is to be put in place around the cracking and subsiding Mayo Peace Park wall in the coming weeks. Mayo County Council issued an update to Castlebar councillors on what steps are being taken to address the issues at the Castlebar structure.

Mayo County Council is aiming to progress a project that will see the transformation of a former college in Tourmakeady.

Tooreen NS, Ballyhaunis was named the Northwestern Region’s Travel School of the Year at a ceremony in Dublin on Thursday.