A Mayo councillor has said it is “so embarrassing” that the people of Clare Island had to deal with a boil water notice for four months.

Mayo County Council has been asked to address fuel card issues following an audit report. The council had approximately 230 fuel cards with a gross expenditure in 2022 of approximately €860,000.

Mayo councillors are railing against plans to replace Joint Policing Committees with a new model. The Department of Justice plans to replace the Joint Policing Committee (JPC) structure with Local Community Safety Partnerships.

Residents and members of the business community in Ballina have been "put out" by the recent pavement works on Tolan Street.

Fifteen people refused social housing in a new estate in Ballina because the houses were "too far from town".

A Mayo county councillor has claimed that refusal to grant planning permission to a veterinary practice "smacks of discrimination", writes Keith Bourke.

Mayo councillors have warned that the county’s tourism industry is in "big trouble". The council's monthly meeting heard that there had been a stark drop-off in visitors to some of the county’s top tourist attractions.

An abandoned boat, which is parked in front of a Mayo sporting facility, is preventing the club from obtaining a fire safety certificate.

Mayo County Council does not have the resources to treat the majority of local roads this winter, a meeting of the local authority heard.

15 people refused social housing in a new housing estate in Ballina, a Mayo councillor has claimed.

A councillor has asked that a traffic calming sign be erected at St Michael’s School on Church Road in Ballina to improve child safety in the area.

Water outages on Achill Island cannot continue in this day and age, a local councillor has said.

North Mayo councillors have defended the Mary Robinson Centre after its finances came under scrutiny at a meeting of Mayo County Council.

Residents in a Ballina estate have significant concerns about a dangerous open drain. Fianna Fáil Cllr Annie May Reape told last week's municipal district meeting that householders in Moyvale have regularly been in touch with her regarding the issue.

The chief executive of Mayo Co Council has been accused of "throwing council officials under the bus" by not attending a recent Westport-Belmullet Municipal District meeting.

A local councillor claims there has been no improvement in the mobile telephone service in certain rural areas in Mayo, despite telecommunications masts being installed in these locations.

Mayo County Council is hoping to have a tender out by the end of next year for the proposed N60 Breaffy Active Travel scheme.

A new regional homeless plan is to be published at the start of 2024, Mayo County Council's Housing Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) was told. The current West Regional Homeless Action Plan, from 2020 to 2023, is being reviewed.

The national training agency SOLAS is not able to provide young people with apprenticeship courses despite the huge demand for apprentices, a local councillor has claimed.

Local councillors have called for improvements to be carried out on the railway bridge near Manulla.

Proposed retrofitting works at Westport Leisure Centre would account for almost half of the carbon emissions cut that Mayo County Council needs before 2030.

The eleven homes in Mayo that received remedial works or were demolished through the Defective Concrete Blocks Scheme in 2023 are all located in the Ballina Municipal District (MD).

Proper signage and line markings are paramount to road safety, according to a local councillor.

Members of The Butterfly Garden committee in Swinford were universally praised by councillors at last week's meeting of Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District.

Housing developers have a responsibility to aid the process of a housing estate being taken in charge by Mayo Co Council, according to members of the Claremorris-Swinford Municipal District.

Mayo's social housing list has 1,235 applicants.

A Ballinrobe councillor has questioned why pedestrian crossings are so expensive to install.

The redeployment of Gardaí from Mayo to Dublin led to heated exchanges at Mayo's Joint Policing Committee when the chair threatened to abandon the meeting after it was angrily claimed it was leaving the county short of manpower.

Tributes were paid to the late Michael Joe McGreal at a meeting of Mayo County Council. Mr McGreal, was a Fianna Fáil member of Mayo County Council from 1974 to 1985.

Mayo councillors have rejected a report on the refugee situation in the county. The report was commissioned by Mayo County Council following a request by councillors.

Glowing tributes were paid to the late Eddie Staunton at a meeting of Mayo County Council. Mr Staunton served as a councillor for 33 years from 1981 to 2014.

A councillor has suggested that Mayo County Council could examine the possibility of a designated site for 'boy racers. 'Cllr Seamus Weir has previously highlighted the 'boy racer' problem in the county.

Concerns have been raised about how the Repair and Lease Scheme is impacting some towns in the county. Cllr Gerry Murray has warned that the ‘well-intentioned’ scheme is having a potentially negative effect on town centres.

Mayo County Council has an 'alarming' number of staff vacancies, according to a local councillor. Cllr Peter Flynn made the comments during Mayo County Council's annual budget meeting. He said he believes the local authority is 'floundering'.

An application to build 30 new houses in an East Mayo town has been lodged, according to a local election candidate.

Former TD and Senator Michelle Mulherin will not seek the Fine Gael nomination for the 2024 local elections in the Ballina Municipal District. The party will instead be represented in Ballina town by local businessman Hugh Rouse.

Councillors agreed on a €201m Mayo County Council budget, at a meeting yesterday. The council’s Director of Finance, Peter Duggan, informed councillors that the local authority had to be mindful of an existing €3. 1m deficit within the budget.

Surprised has been expressed after it was revealed that some offers of tenancies at a new housing development in Ballina have been rejected.

A Mayo election hopeful has announced his withdrawal from next year’s local elections. In August, Sinn Féin announced that Tony Geraghty would be contesting the Castlebar area as part of a two-candidate strategy in the district.

A Mayo county councillor has confirmed that the total cost of the Robeen Group Water Scheme (GWS) has been provided by the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage, and contractors have already been hired.

It has been confirmed that works on a long-awaited pedestrian crossing in Bonniconlon village will begin next year. Fine Gael Cllr John O’Hara welcomed the news after he raised the matter at last week’s meeting of the Ballina Municipal District.

An Coimisiún Toghcháin, Ireland’s independent electoral commission, has made its independent recommendations to the Oireachtas on the make-up of Ireland’s electoral constituencies for June’s European Parliament elections.

Signs along the old Westport Road in Castlebar were removed without the knowledge of Mayo County Council, writes Keith Bourke. The mystery behind who removed the signs was finally revealed at a meeting of Castlebar Municipal District.

Councillors have urged Mayo County Council to “exert more muscle” in order to restore two dropped Smarter Travel schemes.

Last week’s meeting of the Ballina Municipal District was adjourned for 15 minutes as a mark of respect to the late Fine Gael councillor Eddie Staunton.

Councillors will not pass a Mayo County Council budget unless a reprieve is given to under-pressure ratepayers.

A councillor has warned that “somebody will be killed” unless a number of derelict buildings in Castlebar are dealt with. A meeting of Castlebar Municipal District heard that derelict properties at Barrack Bridge are in a dangerous condition.

A local councillor has claimed that Ballina is ‘finished’ as a fishing town unless something is done to control the seal population on the Moy Estuary.

A local councillor has said Mayo County Council should support the Taoiseach’s call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Cllr Jarlath Munnelly has called on Mayo County Council to seek funding to surface a loose surface section of the Monasteries of the Moy greenway with macadam.

Councillors in the Ballina Municipal District have said they require a significant increase in the General Municipal Allocation (GMA) in this year’s budget.

The Fine Gael selection convention for the Westport Local Electoral Area took place recently in the Knockranny House Hotel, Westport, and was guest-chaired by Galway Senator Seán Kyne.

Works on the long-awaited supply of water to villages in west Mayo is set to commence in the coming weeks with the final contracts now signed.

A local councillor has compared a proposed Government rates rebate scheme to a ‘Ponzi scheme’.

Councillors in the West Mayo Municipal District have been told that Mayo County Council was not even able to afford to provide portaloos at a charity event.

Mayo County Council's Cathaoirleach, Cllr Michael Loftus, led a successful delegation from Mayo to Cleveland last month, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the twinning agreement between Achill Island and the City of Cleveland, which has strong ...

Fine Gael TD Michael Ring has again raised the need to progress the Crossmolina (River Deel) Flood Relief Scheme.

Castlebar-based TD Alan Dillion has been elected as the new chairperson of the Fine Gael party.  Deputy Dillion was elected by Fine Gael parliamentary party members at a meeting held last Wednesday evening.

A low railway bridge on a busy road in Westport is an ongoing health and safety risk and must be addressed, a local councillor has said.

Westport's Keira Keogh has been nominated alongside sitting councillor Peter Flynn by the Westport branch of Fine Gael to go forward to the Fine Gael selection convention on November 9 for next year's local elections in Mayo.

Months after €465,000 in funding was granted for the long-awaited Ballinrobe Urban Greenway, a local councillor has confirmed that almost no progress has been made on site.

Councillors in the Ballina Municipal District have voiced support for a motion calling for the implementation of a professional and humane scheme to cull seals along the Moy Estuary in order to boost the area’s salmon population.

A councillor has accused Mayo County Council of putting unnecessary obstacles in the path of a multi-million euro Castlebar development.

A local councillor has called on the government to provide funding to help secure the future of the Bonniconlon Post Office.

Mayo county councillors have backed a motion calling on the local authority to write to the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan to support the continued exploration of the Inishkea gas ...

Just one person in Mayo has used the First Home scheme to purchase a home in the county.

Fine Gael TD and former Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring has strongly defended the Kiltimagh Velorail project in the wake of stinging criticism of it by one of his party colleagues in Westport.

Speed limits cannot be changed in Mayo until the Government’s national speed limit review is concluded. Mayo Co Council executive engineer Orla Bourke informed local councillors of the news at a recent meeting of Ballina Municipal District.

Tax incentives could attract tech companies and drive business

Fine Gael Cllr Michael Burke has welcomed the Electoral Commission's recommendations

The ruins of the Augustinian Abbey in Ballina need urgent conservation and repair works, a local councillor has stated.

A Lahardane native is hoping to be put forward as a candidate for the Social Democrat party in next year’s local elections in the Castlebar area.

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

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