Kay Bourke, a receptionist and hostess at the Westport Woods Hotel, has been announced as the 2023-24 Irish Hotels Federation Mayo branch ‘Employee of the Year’.

A Mayo woman whose weather forecast changed the course of history has died aged 100. Maureen Sweeney (nee Flavin), Blacksod, Belmullet and formerly of Listowel, Co Kerry has died peacefully yesterday at Sonas Ti Aire Nursing Home, Belmullet.

Ballina councillors have given their backing to a proposal to replace all of the town’s traffic lights with a Google artificial intelligence system.

A structural engineer is to be appointed to assess ongoing subsidence at the Mayo Peace Park near Lough Lannagh in Castlebar. Subsidence has caused separations to appear in the main memorial wall of the Peace Park.

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.

A local councillor has called on Mayo County Council to move a road sign for the new N5 dual carriageway that he claims is in the wrong place and is blocking a light source for nearby residents.

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.