The eight track record juxtaposes folklore with modern history

Tickets are selling fast for the once-in-a-lifetime performance of Handel's 'Messiah' at St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina on Saturday, November 11.

Mayo County Council has been urged to find businesses to take up residence at the Ballina Innovation Quarter. The €3.

A fresh injection of young talent is behind the resurgence of Ballina Stephenites’, believes veteran defender Ger Cafferkey who is hoping the experience of last year’s county final will stand to the team on Sunday. Stuart Tynan reports.

A Ballina man who sent sexually explicit messages to an 11-year-old girl he never met has received a suspended jail term.

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.

National Intermediate Cup – Round 1  Team Merry Monk 71  Castleisland St Mary’s 77  Daragh Coyle at Ballina Sports Centre  It wasn’t to be for Team Merry Monk on ...

The 2023 Mayo Senior Football Championship will conclude as it began, with a first-ever meeting in the county final of Ballina Stephenites, the competition’s most successful club, and Breaffy, who have yet to experience the thrill of lifting the ...

A local councillor has said that a number of pyrite-affected homeowners have received letters from engineers looking for additional fees.

A Ballina man whose unlicensed greyhounds attacked a smaller dog has received a suspended prison sentence.

More than €670,000 in fines were generated by GoSafe speed detection vans in Mayo since 2019, according to figures released to the Western People under the Freedom of Information Act.

Moy Valley runner Keelan Kilrehill was among the star performers at Sunday’s 7th edition of the Autumn Open International Cross-Country Festival.

As part of Social Inclusion Awareness Week, a thought-provoking seminar, entitled ‘Cairdeas le Chéile’, took place in the Ballina Arts Centre last Wednesday.

Mayo SFC Semi-Final Ballina Stephenites 0-10 Knockmore 0-7 High on tension, low on quality, but neither statement of fact about this semi-final will bother Ballina Stephenites too much, as they overcame their neighbours to secure a second ...

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Shop has thanked everyone who made their recent Coffee Morning such a great success.

The park has a stellar reputation as one of the best in Ireland

Almost €42k in prizes for local winnersCash prizes totalling €41,595 were awarded in the quarterly draw for members of Ballina Credit Union. Louise Clarke, Ballina won the top prize of €15,000 in the September draw.

Ballina Stephenites and Belmullet faced off in an intense affair

The incident was brought to an end shortly after 10pm when armed gardaí forced entry to the building and arrested the man.

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.

The incident took place at a business premises on Market Square in Ballina on Wednesday night

The River Moy in Ballina will be illuminated with the prayers and intentions of hundreds of local people next Saturday as they come out in force to support the 2023 Remembrance on the River event.

Ballina councillors have called on An Garda Síochána to do more to thwart the activities of boy racers in the town.

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

Fresh of a remarkable campaign last year, Ballina Braves Basketball Club will be competing on two fronts for the upcoming season as they enter the newly-formed Division 2 National League.

Ballinrobe: Mary and Willie Walsh Memorial: Gents: 1st, Sean O’Connor, 42; 2nd, Peter Flaherty, 40; Gross, John Lydon, 36 G pts; Cat 1, Sean Mulryan, 38; Cat 2, Vincent Connell, 36; Cat 3, Norman Keane, 37; Cat 4 David Madden, ...

There is no TD based anywhere from Shrule bridge to Charlestown, a gap which was highlighted by Councillor Patsy O’Brien

The man received a suspended sentence at Castlebar courthouse

Free Culture Night shows in Ballina. Katie’s Corner, Abbey Street, will be the venue for Donal Dineen’s free Culture Night show in Ballina on Friday, September 22.

Walkers set off from the track at 10am

Ferran Terrace is a well-known address in Ballina but most local people know little about the man after whom it is named. SINEAD MITCHELL-BRENNAN chronicles the eventful life and tragic death of Dr Francis P. Ferran.

Twenty-five years ago, the closure of Asahi in Killala brought an end to the north Mayo town’s place in the West’s industrial revolution that sprang up throughout the 1970s and 1980s.