A playground in South Mayo is in need of a facelift, according to a local councillor.

AbbVie, the global biopharmaceutical company, has been listed as one of the best places to work in Ireland at the 2024 Great Place to Work Awards. It is the eleventh consecutive year that the company has featured on the list.

Mayo County Council’s decision to grant planning for the development of an inert waste recovery facility at a quarry in North Mayo has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála.

Tributes have been paid to popular student Kacper Swierkowski, who died in a single vehicle collision in the Castlebar area yesterday, as a GoFundMe page to help his family has raised over €20,000.

Fine Gael candidate in the Ballina electoral area, Hugh Rouse, has welcomed the decision to extend the exploration licence for a large area adjoining the existing Corrib gas field off the Mayo coast.

The number of serious injury collisions on the N5 doubled between 2016 and 2022 with four-fifths of those crashes occurring in Co Mayo, according to new Road Safety Authority (RSA) figures.

A man, who was arrested in Mayo on Tuesday, is to appear in court in relation to the alleged false imprisonment of a woman earlier this week. Gardaí in Arklow, Co Wicklow, have charged a man who was arrested in connection with the incident.

A local councillor has welcomed the news that €83,000 is to be provided for the Annefield crossroads in South Mayo. The crossroads has been a notorious accident blackspot for many years.

Roadworks on a dangerous junction at Frenchpark in Roscommon are due to begin next week.

More than €300,000 of cannabis was seized and two men and a woman were arrested after Gardaí discovered two grow houses in county Galway.