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In the News (Thu 21 Aug 08)

  
  News from Mayo - 23rdFebruary2001
CATHAOIRLEACH of Mayo County Council Cllr Annie Mai Reape, has made a personal appeal to the Minister for the Marine, Frank Fahey to ensure that there "is a bend put in the gas pipeline in the direction of Ballina and Sligo".
"Mayo must gain benefit from the discovery of the gas that will flow through the county," said Cllr Reape, as she urged Mayo people living in Galway to impress on the Minister the county's determination to benefit from the gas find off the Erris coast.
Kenny, Mayo's longest serving TD, with 25 years experience in the Dáil behind him, was surprisingly dropped from the Fine Gael First Team by Noonan following the battle for the leadership of the party, in which Kenny received 40 per cent of the parliamentary party support.
www.mayoalive.com /news/010223.htm   (925 words)

  
 Mayo Story by Evelyn Snider
The name of the Mayo family has been non-existent in Horry County since 1902 when the youngest daughter was married, but the influence of the Mayo family beginning in Martin County, North Carolina, reaches now unto the uttermost parts of the earth and even into space.
Mayo is a public spirited citizen, and has several times served an admiring constituency in public official capacity.
Evelyn Mayo Snider (8/23/07) was the only child to survive infancy, two boys (Ernest David and Roland Manley dying as babies.) "Miss Maud's" many abilities and charm endeared her to all.
www.hchsonline.org /bio/mayo.html   (1761 words)

  
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Not surprisingly, Mayo and Montoya again were in conflict with each other, but because the C-D job was large and because Montoya was not assigned to Mayo's crew, their arguments were sporadic and not serious.
At this time, according to Dale, Mayo allegedly told Dale in confidence that he felt he was being dis- criminated against because of his race and that he sin- cerely felt that Dale's presence on the jobsite could im- prove conditions and contribute toward eliminating or relieving racial prejudice at the jobsite.
First, Mayo made no reference in his testimony that he was experiencing racial prejudice, or that he feared physical violence, although there was no doubt Mayo desired Dale to begin work at C-D, and Mayo be- lieved that Dale's presence would restrain Montoya from doing what Mayo believed him to be doing.
www.nlrb.gov /nlrb/shared_files/decisions/279/279-632.txt   (9137 words)

  
 Seanad Éireann - Volume 77 - 09 April, 1974 - Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 1973: Second Stage.
In relation to the number and size of constituencies, it will be seen from the explanatory memorandum that the overall number of constituencies remains unchanged at 42, there are four extra five-seaters an four fewer four-seaters and the number of three-seaters remains the same.
These are only two of the many constituencies which were criticised bitterly in the past and about which, when an opportunity was given to the parties who criticised the arrangement in the past, the parties concerned did little or nothing to improve the situation and, in some respects, made the situation even worse.
In the drawing up of those constituencies some cognisance should have been taken of them and some more realistic attempt should have been made to ensure that if there was any loss of representation in any part of this country it should not have occurred in the north-western or in the western areas.
www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie /S/0077/S.0077.197404090007.html   (16966 words)

  
 ireland.com - Breaking News - Tue, Nov 21, 2006 - O'Mahony returns to the Mayo ticket
O'Mahony turned down the job last year, and earlier this year was added to the Fine Gael ticket for the Mayo constituency, and last night he said his decision to take the job this time around was not inspired by political motives.
O'Mahony has asked Mayo fans to be patient and he emphasised that the three-year term was crucial to allow for the development of the Mayo team.
Mayo have been there or thereabouts over a number of years, and there are a lot of good structures in Mayo football already.
www.ireland.com /newspaper/breaking/2006/1121/breaking17.htm   (638 words)

  
 Beverly Flynn - Politics.ie Wiki
She became a full-time public representative after the election and won a nomination to contest the Mayo constituency at the 1997 General Election.
She won the second Fianna Fáil seat in this constituency and subsequently was elected to Mayo County Council for the Castlebar area at the 1999 Local Election.
She was expelled from the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party in 1999 for voting against a motion asking her father to clarify his position with regard to alleged financial donations he received that were raised at the Flynn Tribunal.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=Beverly_Flynn   (287 words)

  
 Mayo Greens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lucille O’Shea, candidate for Mayo County Council for the Westport area, outlined their eight-step plan which also includes a commitment to ensuring cleaner water, extending public transport systems and holding elected officials more accountable.
“The Green Party in Mayo believes that it provides a key to an improved quality of life, a core component of which is planning for a better future for everyone” said Dr. Lucille Ryan O’Shea.
The conference is jointly organised by GMIT and the Centre for the Environment, TCD, and is also supported by the Heritage Council and Mayo County Council.
www.mayogreens.org   (971 words)

  
 Ireland GenWeb, County Mayo
The county constituency consists of 301 £50, 277 £20, and 747 £10 freeholders and leaseholders; and 15 £50 and 10 £20 rent-chargers; making a total of 1350 registered voters.
This bay, which separates the counties of Mayo and Galway, penetrates eleven miles into the interior between steep and lofty mountains, and is uniformly about half a mile in breadth, being throughout an excellent harbour for large ships, though occasionally subject to squalls from the hills.
It has been proposed to form a lock at Belleek castle, by which vessels of heavy burden might come up to the town, if a passage were cut through the limestone ledges that obstruct the navigation, and measures are in progress to effect this object.
www.rootsweb.com /~irlmayo   (6432 words)

  
 Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mayo parliamentary constituency spans the entire area of Mayo County Council in the Connacht county of Mayo.
The constituency has an electorate of 94,854 and at present is served by 5 Teachtaí Dála (TDs).
Her father, Pádraig Flynn, served the constituency for over twenty-five years before his retirement from domestic politics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayo_(D%C3%A1il_%C3%89ireann_constituency)   (219 words)

  
 From the Mayo News - 20 Oct 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Mayo constituency poll-topper was offered the Marine portfolio in Enda Kenny’s re-shuffle on Wednesday last, but felt that this represented a downgrading of his position.
In spite of Ring’s seaside constituency he refused the offer — perhaps he had grammatical concerns and did not want to be the only minister for an adjective — Minister of the Marine — in the cabinet.
This article in the Mayo News and a similar one in the Connaught this week (unfortunately their website has not been updated for a few weeks so I can’t give adequate coverage to the CT this week) suggests that they are now intent on shutting down GMIT Castlebar campus more or less completely.
www.castlebar.ie /news/printer_mn-20041020.shtml   (1544 words)

  
 Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland - What it Says in the Newspapers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mayo County Council vow to reverse Henniges closure in Ballina
Mayo County Council has vowed to work to reverse the decision by the parent company to close the Henniges Elastomers plant in Ballina with the loss of 220 jobs.
An MRBI poll of voter intentions in the Mayo constituency, commissioned by the Irish language station TG4, has given Westport based deputy Michael Ring a massive 22 per cent share (excluding undecided) of first preference votes as the country counts down to the next general election.
www.castlebar.ie /newsetc/papers240101-arc.html   (1720 words)

  
 PRESIDENTIAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS ACT, 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(vii) in the case of the North Mayo constituency, the county registrar of the county of Mayo;
(viii) in the case of the South Mayo constituency, the under-sheriff of the county of Mayo or, on that office ceasing to exist, the county registrar of the county of Mayo;
—The local returning officer for a constituency shall, in relation to the taking of the poll in any local electoral area in the constituency for the purposes of a 1945 local election, be the returning officer.
www.irishstatutebook.ie /1945_15.html   (1690 words)

  
 Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, a problem that had to be taken seriously was the the case of the Sanaga Maritime constituency where Marcel Yondo of the MLDC party brought in four witnesses to testify that election material meant for the Kumba Urban constituency found itself in the Sanaga Maritime instead.
The elections are supposed to be re-run in the Mefou and Akono, Mbam and Nkim, Nyong and So'o, Nkam, Sanaga Maritime,Bamboutos, Mifi, Benoue West and Kumba Urban constituencies.
The President of the Republic, Paul Biya, last Tuesday, July 31, 2002, issued a decree calling on the voters of the nine constituencies whose results were cancelled by the Supreme Court to go to the polls on the 15th of September to choose their parliamentarians.
www.spm.gov.cm /elections/journal_elect_a.htm   (4366 words)

  
 The Post Online (Cameroon): 5 Deceased MPs Yet To Be Replaced As Assembly Opens
Nicholas Amougou Noma of the Mfoundi constituency died on March 11, 2004 and the Kupe Muanenguba MP in the Southwest Province, Hon.
In the wake of the present circumstances, government was expected to organise by-elections in each of the affected constituencies according to the 1992 law laying down conditions governing the election of Members of Parliament.
This law further stipulates that by-elections shall be held in the electoral constituency in the manner specified in section 5, 6, and 7 of the same law.
www.postnewsline.com /2005/06/strong5_decease.html   (1308 words)

  
 Mayo news review - 1997
It was the year when Beverley Cooper-Flynn finally achieved the distinction of becoming a TD and succeed in being elected in the June General Election when the Mayo constituency became a single five-seater from the old three seaters Mayo East and Mayo West.
In April an appeal was lodged to An Bord Pleanala against the decision of Mayo County Council to refuse permission for a cable car to Inishbiggle Island.
The new chairman of Mayo County Council, Achill man Pat Kilbane was installed and President Mary Robinson unveiled the national Famine memorial at Murrisk.
www.mayo-ireland.ie /ConnTel/CT9712/CT971231/Edit.htm   (1140 words)

  
 Ballina, County Mayo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ballina is the largest town in County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland.
It lies at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, in the Moy valley, with the Ox Mountain range to the east and the Nephin Beg Mountains to the west.
Ballina is in north Mayo, in the province of Connacht.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballina,_County_Mayo   (2102 words)

  
 Debunking the Myth of FOM Limitations
For example, Mayo Employees books mortgage loans that don't qualify for resale on the secondary market for young residents whose student loans and other debt prevent them from qualifying for a traditional mortgage.
In fact, it was a key driver of Mayo Employees strategy which yielded double the growth of the industry as a whole.
Secondly, this article is based on the premise that Mayo Employees has not changed their FOM during this 10 year period and experienced this growth with the same FOM throughout the 10 year period.
www.creditunions.com /home/articles/template.asp?article_id=1592   (1048 words)

  
 The Why Files | 4. Digging the data
"It's easier to mobilize a constituency in support of a new screening test, a new treatment for lung cancer than it is to mobilize comparable support for primary prevention," he says.
During the 1970s, the Mayo project randomly divided 9,192 smoking men into control and screening groups, then looked for lung cancer in the screening group, using conventional X-rays and cytology (cell analysis).
The death rates in the screened and control groups were the same, so the screening was deemed ineffective (see "The Mayo Lung..." in the bibliography).
whyfiles.org /222lung_cancer/index.php?g=4.txt   (1503 words)

  
 John Carty - Politics.ie Wiki
He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Mayo constituency at the 2002 General Election at the expense of sitting TD Dr. Tom Moffat.
Carty resigned from Mayo County Council in 2003 due to the abolition of the dual mandate.
His brother Michael Carty is a member of Mayo County Council for the Claremorris Local Electoral Area.
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=John_Carty   (209 words)

  
 Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: Nominees for Director - Research & Doctoral Constituency Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I have participated in development of numerous educational/training programs for these constituencies promoting contributions to the field, service to the public, and recruitment of the scientists/faculty of tomorrow.
At the national level, I was a Board member pioneer in the reorganization initiative that led to restructuring of the Board and to the creation of constituency groups.
First, active international and local partnerships among Sigma Xi constituency groups, scientists and educators are vital to the future of the Society.
www.sigmaxi.org /meetings/archive/meet.2004.del.elect.rd.shtml   (1560 words)

  
 Western People: Big money and Mayo’s war on dirty industries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When communities find that their voices are being ignored, when they lose faith in their, purportedly, democratic system and leaders and when they are confronted by, what they believe to be, a hostile, unaccountable and secretive pro-corporate state bureaucracy, the reactions of local communities become unpredictable.
With Fianna Fail currently holding just one out of five Dáil seats in the Mayo constituency and with reports of a virtual ‘civil war’ within the party in Castlebar, the omens are not good for the party if it further alienates the Mayo public before the next general election, scheduled to take place before mid-2007.
The scale of the protests in north Mayo, particularly in the Killala area, suggest that voters are serving notice on politicians that their voices must, and will be, heard.
www.westernpeople.ie /news/story.asp?j=23589   (2278 words)

  
 Ring dismisses 'disappointment' claim over new role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mayo Fine Gael Dail Deputy Michael Ring has dismissed claims he was disappointed not to win a place in the party's newly selected front bench.
His supporters hoped he would be appointed to the role of a senior shadow spokesman following his remarkable achievement in the General Election in topping the poll in new Mayo constituency.
In no event shall Mayo Ireland Ltd be liable for any incidental or consequential damages, lost profits, or any indirect damages arising from any errors in these pages.
www.mayo-ireland.ie /ConnTel/CT9709/CT970917/Ring.htm   (273 words)

  
 North Atlantic Skyline: Shipbuilding
One can imagine the steely glint in her eye when asked to fund the project of an opposition TD in a nearby constituency (and a Blueshirt at that!) - she said no. Now, the amount that they were looking for in 1997 was around three thousand pounds.
Representing a west of Ireland constituency, I am very mindful of government policies encouraging measures and mechanisms to dial (sic) with peripheries and in ensuring that such measures will have a positive effect on local communities.
The excavation of the park is about to start (the town was promised a 250,000 euros grant to help with that, but it fell through too) so they made a public appeal this morning on The Pat Kenny Show for the present tourism minister, John O'Donaghue to help them pay the customs bill.
www.monasette.com /archive/000199.html   (461 words)

  
 Western People: . . . and now Hollymount man to run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Another candidate has entered what is beginning to look like a "crowded" Mayo Constituency with the declaration at the weekend by Stephen Walsh from Derrymore, Hollymount that he will be a runner in the upcoming General Election.
The South Mayo farmer has been campaigning over the past two years for a better deal for motorists and he launched the Drivers Rights Association to highlight what he sees as the gross indifference to motorists by government agencies.
Walsh contends that the rights of drivers have been trampled on by the system and administrations over the years and he has called on drivers to present a united front in seeking fair play.
www.westernpeople.ie /news/story.asp?j=6763   (447 words)

  
 The Labour Party - People - Harry Barrett - Biography
Harry is currently a member of the Mayo V.E.C. He is also a member of the Board of Management of Davitt College in Castlebar.
As the P.R.O. of the Labour Party in Mayo, Harry has highlighted the gaps in infrastructure in Mayo in comparison to what prevails on the East coast.
In addition, he recently revealed that the level of Gardaí in Mayo has fallen in the last 8 years, adding to the fears of people living in rural areas.
www.labour.ie /harrybarrett/biography.html   (408 words)

  
 Aetna: Houston Parade Goers 'Brush Up' On Dental Health For Cinco De Mayo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cinco de Mayo is a day of pride and remembrance for those of Mexican heritage.
This is Aetna's second year as a participant in the Houston Cinco de Mayo Day Parade, which last year attracted more than 10,000 attendees, including members of Congress, and received widespread media coverage.
As part of Houston's Cinco de Mayo parade on Saturday, May 4, Aetna and Aetna Foundation helped a key emerging-markets audience "brush up" on the importance of dental health.
www.aetna.com /foundation/news/articles/2002/pr_20020504.htm   (322 words)

  
 It’s a matter of wealth in NA-125 -DAWN - National; October 1, 2002
The area is largely inhabited by serving and retired armymen from the Arain, Mayo, Bhatti, and Awan clans.
The constituency has always returned the PPP candidates except in 1993 and 1997.
He claims that he also has sympathy vote because he was ousted by Nawaz Sharif from this constituency in 1997 in spite of a popular backing.
www.dawn.com /2002/10/01/nat37.htm   (719 words)

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