The one certainty is that Eamon O’Cuiv’s seat could be the safest in Ireland — even though politicians hate hearing that.

In 2011, the ascension of Enda Kenny from opposition leader to Taoiseach and the possibilities this offered his county was for some people in Mayo, home of the Knock shrine, like the second coming of Christ.

The Assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster is due to carry out a post mortem this afternoon on the body of a woman found at a rural house in Co Mayo yesterday evening.

We might regard ourselves as a nation of bandwagon jumpers, but Chelsea and Man City lag well behind in Ireland on Twitter’s new Premier League support index.

The family of an Irishman killed in Qatar are being provided with consular assitance, said the Department of Foreign Affairs.

A couple who prepared for what they hoped would be an idyllic home birth experienced a nightmare instead, an inquest has heard.

Heavy rain is causing spot flooding in south Mayo and north Galway.

Debt-ridden householders in the North West are waiting up to five months for an appointment with the State’s Money Advice and Budgeting Service, as it was revealed that Mabs staff will be “floating” between their normal jobs and the soon-to-be-launched Irish Insolvency Service.

The boundary constituency changes for the next general election have been passed in Dáil Éireann. In the case of my own county, Mayo, a significant portion of the south has transferred into Galway West.

Gardaí in Tuam are appealing for witnesses after a car which is believed to have been involved in criminal activity crashed in the south Mayo/north Galway area on Thursday night.

Senior Fine Gael members in Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s constituency of Mayo have written to Phil Hogan, the environment minister, to express anger at proposals to change its boundaries.

The Constituency Commission has recommended cutting the number of TDs in Leinster House by eight - from 166 to 158.

The stabbing of a 31-year-old man in Cork on Friday is now being treated as murder after the victim died in hospital last night.

GARDAÍ are believed to be making progress in tracking down a rampaging knife-wielding gang in Co Mayo.

IT COST the Department of Agriculture and Food about €9,250, in travel and subsistence, to inspect 18,600 sheep, in Connemara, and south Mayo on November 9, 2006.

The manslaughter trial of Mayo farmer Padráig Nally resumed at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today after he was released from hospital where he was being treated for a medical condition.

NEIGHBOURS of Mayo farmer Padraig Nally who arrived home on Sunday have vowed to support him as he faces a retrial for the killing of Traveller John ‘Frog’ Ward.

The Government has finally given approval for the construction of a new €50m community hospital and ambulance base in North Galway, it emerged today.

FIANNA FÁIL yesterday selected a former senator and the son of a former TD as candidates in Mayo, one of the most difficult constituencies for the party in next year’s General Election.

PEOPLE about to take their own lives are increasingly using text messages and voicemail instead of handwritten notes as a means of delivering the chilling messages, a coroner revealed at the weekend.

Travellers are living in fear as they go about their day-to-day business due to the fall-out from the sentencing of a Co Mayo farmer, groups said tonight.

A CORONER yesterday said a 49-year-old father of one, who died of suffocation caused by a cancer tumour while receiving alternative therapies, would still be alive had he had received conventional medicine.