Almost 300 vacant homes have been brought back into use in the last two years following anonymous tip-offs.

The Irish Planning Institute (IPI) — the all-island body for professional planners engaged in physical, spatial and environmental planning in Ireland — has announced the election of four new members as Fellows at the institute’s annual Autumn Planning Conference.

There has been localised flooding in western counties after heavy rain last night.

Mayo County Council said many wardens reported being shouted at and abused while trying to do their job.

Three Irish beaches have failed to retain their Blue Flag awards this year.

A ‘rampaging ram’ that terrorised sightseers at Downpatrick Head, an iconic Co Mayo beauty spot, has been placed under strict farmyard detention by its owner.

In June 2018, the driver of an articulated truck in Cork was convicted of careless driving when it was determined that he had used both hands to take photos of an accident on the South Ring Road. He was fined €600 and given five penalty points.

A demand by Mayo County Council for the immediate removal of a roadside memorial to a 21-year-old youth who was murdered almost two years ago has been criticised by the victim’s family as “heartbreaking” and “insensitive”.

A nanny goat called Daisy has given birth to twin “geeps” — goat/sheep hybrids — after a week-long dalliance with a Cheviot ram on a Co Mayo farm.

Leprechauns are popping up all over Mayo.

The number of cyclists killed on Irish roads in the first half of 2017 is double that of the same period last year.

Mayo County Council is the first in the country to launch the Too Close for comfort initiative, ahead of national bike week.

The party is looking for a candidate to tailer a message to the electorate. There are a number of considerations to make, writes Joe Leogue.

A local man has claimed the basis of a planning approval for a multi-million Euro wind farm project in Co Mayo means substantially less financial compensation for the local community.

The scenes were all a part of RTÉ comedy series, The Hardy Buck which the comedian is currently starring in.

A makeshift solar-powered houseboat has washed up on an Irish beach after apparently drifting across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada.

Concerns have been raised about the potential €8.5m cost of building a new presidential library in the hometown of a former holder of the office, Mary Robinson.

A High Court judge has dismissed an action by a man, which included an “incredible” €500,000 damages claim for “loss of goods”, over repossession of a council house where he lived for some four years under a caretaker agreement.

MARY Robinson’s presidency, from 1990 to 1997, was one of the steps we took in our long, meandering march towards modernity. 

One of the country’s most audacious school renovation projects has been recognised in this year’s RIAI architecture awards.

Road safety officers have come up with a novel way of ‘fooling’ motorists to slow down today by erecting a life-size cutout of a garda on various routes.

Almost one in 10 drivers still drink and drive as they think they will be able to get away with it.

Rogue drivers are being targeted in a bid to lick lollipop lady road rage.

Her family hasn’t given up hope.

She may have driven Fr Ted to distraction more often than not, but Mrs Doyle and her inevitable cup of tea are about to drive home a very different message over the weekend.

The death of young people “robs us of all of our tomorrows”, a parish priest said yesterday.

A single farmer in Co Mayo has won the right to be buried on his own land.

The Road Safety Authority and the gardaí have launched a joint safety operation targeting cyclists and truck drivers. Marking the start of Bike Week, the aim of the campaign is to highlight the existence of ‘blind spots’ around trucks.

A young couple whose lives were shattered by a freak tragedy have become the public face of a campaign to keep late-night revellers safe on Irish roads.

Thousands of cyclists risk being hit in the pocket because they are not fully insured.

Cycling is in fashion. Close to 200,000 bikes have been bought under the bike-to-work scheme, but cyclists would be advised to think about insurance cover.

Roads in the west are to be blessed in an attempt to reduce the carnage caused by traffic crashes.

Road users are being urged to exercise tolerance on rural roads.

An Eddie Rocket’s diner in Arklow and the delicatessen area of a Cork supermarket were among nine premises served with a closure order last month for food safety legislation breaches.

Pedestrians are being urged to make it a New Year's resolution to wear a high vis jacket when they are out walking.

The Food Safety Authority has served enforcement orders on 12 food businesses in November.

There are plenty of causes of road accidents. Fatigue, drunk driving, reckless driving, weather conditions, tailgating and many others.

A Mayo GAA club claimed they were ‘spoken to like dummies from the west of Ireland’ by Association officials in Croke Park.

A driver in the US, who was impaled on a guardrail as she was texting while driving, has appealed to other drivers to pay heed.

A staff member at Mayo County Council has been sacked following a suspected fraud against the local authority.

Thousands of car buyers who responded to an advertisement for a cut-price car got more than they bargained for when the voicemail on the number they were asked to ring turned out to be a road safety message.