More than 10% of an €8.4m government fund for tourism projects around Ireland ended up going to Co Mayo — constituency of the minister responsible, Michael Ring.

The announcement was made at the council’s February southern committee meeting.

The project has already received approval for significant Government grant aid – but without proper consultation with businesses and locals, a council area meeting heard in Killorglin.

The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) is to review the use of the word ‘unlimited’ when it comes to advertising mobile phone and broadband data plans which have so-called ‘fair use policies’.

THE death of a Co Galway woman in a savage dog attack outside her son’s home could have been avoided if earlier warnings about the animals’ behaviour had been listened to, an inquest has heard.

The total number of dogs that were euthanised in local authority pounds last year was 778.

Buying dogs online could be banned under stricter dog control measures.

Philanthropists Peter Kinney and Lisa Sandquist tell Ellie O’Byrne why their sights are set on funding equality in Ireland

The showing season which has started countrywide will continue for the next six months with close on 140 events being held north and south.

Information for community groups on how to submit effective applications for grant funding will be delivered at a series of events this month.

The Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce will meet for the eighth time.

One of Barack Obama’s initiatives begun a decade ago in the US has strengthened civil society by innovative means over here, writes Pádraig Hoare.

Payments are made to about 1,900 landholders to maintain 39 recreational walking trails around the country, and the Department of Rural and Community Development now invites expressions of

To the charge that Harper’s Island in Cork Harbour, with its three points of contact to the ‘mainland’, is not an island, the rebuttal affirming its island status: The area is defined by its natural history and not its current structures, writes Dan MacCarthy.

Half-a-million euro has been allocated by the Department of Rural and Community Development to 350 men’s sheds across the country.

Mallow Castle, the Ring of Kerry and Lough Gur are among 78 outdoor recreation projects which are to share an €11 million investment in greenways, blueways and walking trails around the country.

A Fianna Fail TD’s Christmas wish that the Government would provide small farmers or pensioners with vouchers to subsidise their meals in local restaurants was dashed last week.

Rural towns and villages across the country are in for a funding windfall to the tune of €15m.

The Government is facing into three days of Dáil questioning on its Ireland 2040 plan unveiled on Friday.