Vaccine being made available to pregnant women by MUH at Breaffy Vaccination Centre Published: Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:10
The Maternity Unit at Mayo University Hospital is arranging for women who are between 14 and 36 weeks’ gestation to get their COVID-19 vaccine at the Mayo Vaccination Centre in Breaffy Resort.
Women who have antenatal appointments will have an opportunity to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine with their midwife or doctor. Afterwards their contact details will be passed on to the vaccination centre to arrange an appointment, should they decide to proceed with vaccination. This also applies to women who have appointments at the outreach clinics in Claremorris, Ballina and Castlebar.
Mayo Chair of the VFI is confident July 1st will see resumption of indoor services in all pubs
Indoor trading for publicans appears to be on track to resume by Thursday, July 1
st, according to the Mayo Chairman of the Vintners Federation of Ireland, Alan Gielty.
The Achill based publican is hopeful that pubs can fully reopen serving food and drink, or drink only, in time for the traditional start of the summer tourist season.
However, he says that while publicans welcome the reopening of pubs for
outdoor trading only on 7
th June, (two weeks time), for the vast majority of its rural members running an outdoor-only business is not sustainable.
New CE of Mayo County Council takes up the reins today Published: Monday, 24 May 2021 14:29
Mr Kevin Kelly has commenced his new role as Chief Executive at Mayo County Council today.
Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council Richard Finn formally welcomed Mr Kelly to his new position, extending a “warm Mayo” welcome to him and wishing him every success in his new role.
In response the new CE said it s is a great honour to take up duty today, in Mayo County Council as Chief Executive and he is looking forward to bringing his experience in Local Authorities over many years to his new role
Call for Garda Armed Support Unit to be permanently based in Sligo Published: Monday, 24 May 2021 12:03
A Garda Armed Support Unit should be permanently based in Sligo - that s the view of Fine Gael Councillor Thomas Walsh, who will raise the matter at today s monthly meeting of Sligo County Council.
Councillor Walsh says a serious incident occurred in Sligo two weeks ago, involving two serious assaults and an arson attack on a vehicle and a house.
He claims it took over half an hour for the Armed Support Unit based in Ballyshannon to arrive in Sligo, while another unit was also dispatched from Galway to assist.
People could be scammed for years by stolen patient data from HSE cyber attack
Patient data stolen during the HSE cyber attack could be used for years to scam people.
That s the warning from cyber security experts on the day that hackers have threatened to publish data online if a ransom is not paid.
Gardaí and The National Cyber Security Centre are monitoring the dark web to see if files are being uploaded.
Data Protection Consultant Darragh O Brien explains what criminals, who get access to the data, might do.
Volunteers from Aran Islands RNLI had a call out in the early hours of this morning (Monday 24 May) to medically evacuate three people involved in an accident on Inis Mór. The crew were requested to launch their all-weather Severn class lifeboat by the Irish…