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.

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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