Claremorris Community Radio has launched a new Community Diary on its website. Highlighting events, fundraisers, meetings, gigs, functions and what's on around Claremorris and the surrounding areas, the new Community Diary will be the go-to place to find out everything that's happening in the heart of Mayo.

Claremorris Community Radio will be turning the airwaves green this weekend to help celebrate St Patrick's Day in Claremorris.

Claremorris Community Radio is looking for contestants to take part in a Blind Date fund-raising night on Saturday, April 7th, at The Dalton Inn.

“Irish Heroes, Poets and Villains” is a new award-winning radio series, recounting the lives of distinctive Irish individuals and the roles they played in the history, heritage, and culture of their respective eras - be it for good or for evil. The series will begin on Claremorris Community Radio on Wednesday, 25th January at 4pm.

Iorras FM has won a CRAOL Achievement Award at the 2011 awards ceremony for the Community Radio sector, held in Athlone. The Belmullet-based community radio station received a Distinction in the Commissioned Programme Category for the 10-part series “Stand and Deliver – The Irish Outlaw in Story and Song”.

“Sexual Healing”, a new documentary focusing on the issue of sexuality, will be aired on Claremorris Community Radio on Friday January 20th at 1pm and repeated on Monday January 23rd at 8pm. Produced by Claremorris Community Radio and presented by Kathy Burke, this unique documentary features interviews from co-founder of the postgraduate programme in sexuality studies at Dublin City University, Dr Mel Duffy, Galway based psycho-analyst, John Foden, and practitioner of sexual medicine at the Everyman Centre, Dublin, Dr Tom Kelly.

A Mayo journalist has been awarded funding under a prestigious media fund, run by Irish Aid, the Government’s programme of assistance to developing countries. Fiona McGarry, who is from Castlebar, was awarded funds to travel to Haiti to highlight the plight suffered by orphans with disabilities and the contribution made by the people of Mayo from fundraising efforts after the 2010 earthquake.

'From Narcotics to Knock', a new hour-long documentary focusing on drug and addiction problems in rural Ireland, will be aired on Claremorris Community Radio this Friday, 6th January, at 1pm, and repeated on Wednesday, 11th January, at 4pm. The documentary was produced by Claremorris Community Radio volunteers and staff, and presented by Tommy O'Connor.

Castlebar Community Radio will open its doors to the public on Thursday next, December 22nd, to let you see what goes on behind the scenes to keep a radio station on air 24-hours a day. Discover the faces behind the familiar voices that give you the news, sport, weather updates and details of upcoming community events in Castlebar as well as non-stop music.

Westport Radio, WRFM 98.2, is hosting a Budget Special this Sunday at 10am. The two-hour special will be broadcast live from the station’s James Street studios. A panel of representatives of the major political parties will debate the 2012 Budget and its local and national impact and answer listeners questions live on air.