Students  from St. Brendan’s College, Belmullet visited the Dáil this week as guests of Michael Ring, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.

Over 200 people attended the public meeting to discuss the impact of Education Cuts in Erris on Monday evening.  The meeting was organized by a group of concerned parents and chaired by former Erris Person of the year Tom Duffy.

The Ard Mor Road, Binghamstown, is almost impassable - and is one of just 168 LIS roads in the Belmullet Electoral area alone that are waiting to be repaired, according to a Mayo Sinn Fein councillor. Cllr Rose Conway-Walsh is calling for the reinstatement of the  Local Improvement Scheme to provide the funding so that local residents can repair the road that is not the responsibility of the local authority.

Lion President Derek Reilly and the Belmullet/Erris Lions Club are to hold an open meeting on Thursday, January 12th, at 8pm in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel, to explain what a Lions club is all about.

Are you interested in helping set up a voluntary ambulance and First Aid service in the Belmullet and Erris area?

Minister for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring has warmly welcomed the news that the Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn has included the building project at Our Lady’s Secondary School in Belmullet to proceed to construction in 2012.

A wave height of 20.4 meters - or 66.9 feet high - was recorded during yesterday's storm (13th December 2011) by the M4 weather buoy, located 75km north of Belmullet. The M4 buoy forms part of the Irish Weather Buoy Network which began in 2000 and is funded by the Department of  Transport, Tourism and Sport and run by the Marine Institute in collaboration with Met Eireann and the UKMO.

One class from Transition Year in Our Lady's Secondary School in Belmulet took part in the Junior Achievement Awards organised by with Bank of Ireland, Belmullet. Students completed four modules over a four-week period.

Today, December 7th 2011, marks Met Éireann’s 75th anniversary as Ireland’s National Meteorological Service.  On the 8th December 1936, Austen Nagle was appointed as the first Director of the new ‘Irish Meteorological Service’.  Until this date, despite the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922, the Meteorological Office in London continued to hold responsibility for forecasts and other weather services in Ireland.

It is frustrating and disappointing that Mayo County Council failed to apply to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for funding for the development of a slipway at Kilcummin, according to Mayo Fianna Fáil TD, Dara Calleary.