Co. Mayo • 2 stories • Since 12 May 2026 • Latest 18 May 2026
Bridgestock Care Ltd — Old Convent Accommodation Centre, Abbey View, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo F35 T294. The development will consist of the retention of existing temporary prefab for a period of 5 year...
Finnegans Sand Limited has been given the green light to set up a recycling facility for construction and demolition waste at their quarry near Ballyhaunis. The operation will use about 1.6 hectares of existing quarry land to recover and recycle inert materials like soil and stone, using existing machinery already on site. The permission lasts for six years.
Cases and rulings mentioning Ballyhaunis from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
A 33-year-old man has entered a not guilty plea to murder at the Central Criminal Court. Liam O'Leary, formerly of Kiltimagh, is charged with the murder of John Casserly, aged 59, at Tone House on Tone Street in Ballina, County Mayo, between 23 and 24 October 2024. The alleged...
A man from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for a sustained campaign of domestic violence against his former partner spanning seven years. Mark White, aged 54, pleaded guilty to six counts of assault causing...
A farmer from Dunmore, County Galway, has obtained High Court permission to challenge the residential zoning of his lands under the Residential Zoned Land Tax. Michael Knightly is seeking to quash the zoning decision imposed by Galway County Council and is pursuing proceedings...
An intensive care nurse at Mayo General Hospital has received a fully suspended sentence at Castlebar Circuit Court for forging prescriptions to obtain painkillers. Sinéad Donohoe, aged 42, of Scrigg, Ballyhaunis, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and four counts of...
John Tighe of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, will serve the remainder of his mandatory life sentence after the Court of Appeal rejected his challenge to his conviction for murdering his infant son. In March 2018, a jury unanimously found Tighe guilty of the murder of...
Matusz Batiuk, a 33-year-old man formerly residing in Carrabeg Estate, Swinford, Co Mayo, entered a not guilty plea at the Central Criminal Court on 20 March 2023 to the charge of murdering Michael McDonagh, aged 24. The alleged murder occurred at the housing estate in Swinford...
John Tighe of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, remains in prison serving a mandatory life sentence following the dismissal of his conviction appeal at the Court of Appeal in March 2023. He was found guilty by unanimous jury verdict in March 2018 of murdering his...
A 27-year-old man from Letterkenny, County Donegal, has had his suspended sentence for violent disorder doubled by the Court of Appeal. Johnny McDonagh was convicted in Castlebar Circuit Court following a trial relating to an incident at his grandfather's funeral in...
A 25-year-old asylum seeker has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for rape following his guilty plea at Dublin Central Criminal Court. The man pleaded guilty to raping his former girlfriend at a location in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo on 10 January 2016. Imposing sentence,...
A man from Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, has had his five-year prison sentence reduced to twelve months following a successful appeal against his original sentence. Thomas Folliard was convicted at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court of sexually exploiting a child in January 2016...
John Tighe, aged 40, from Lavallyroe in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, has been sentenced to life imprisonment following his conviction for the murder of his infant son, Joshua Sussbier Tighe, who died on 1 June 2013. A jury at the Central Criminal Court returned a unanimous guilty...
At the Central Criminal Court, the jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering his infant son has been permitted to return a majority verdict. John Tighe, aged 40, of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, pleads not guilty to the murder of his six-and-a-half-month-old son,...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court is to resume deliberations on Friday in the trial of John Tighe, aged 40, of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo. Mr Tighe has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his infant son on 1 June 2013. The prosecution alleges that the child choked...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard closing arguments in the trial of a man accused of murdering his infant son in Co Mayo. John Tighe, aged 40, of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his six-and-a-half-month-old son on 1 June 2013. The...
At the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy has begun his charge to the jury in the trial of a Ballyhaunis man accused of murdering his infant son. John Tighe, aged 40, of Lavallyroe, County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of six-and-a-half-month-old...
A father accused of murdering his six-and-a-half-month-old son at his home in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, faces closing arguments at the Central Criminal Court. John Tighe, aged 40, has pleaded not guilty to the charge relating to an incident on 1 June 2013. The prosecution...
A man charged with the murder of his six-month-old son at his home in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo in 2013 later fathered a second child with the infant's mother, the Central Criminal Court heard on Friday. The accused, aged 40, has pleaded not guilty to the charge. During...
A jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard interview transcripts involving a man accused of murdering his infant son. John Tighe, aged 40, from Lavallyroe in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering six-month-old Joshua Sussbier Tighe at...
A 40-year-old man accused of murdering his six-month-old son told gardai "I did all I could" as the child died in his arms. The Central Criminal Court jury heard statements made by John Tighe of Lavallyroe, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, during interviews at Claremorris Garda...
A forensic pathologist has testified at the Central Criminal Court that a tear inside a six-month-old child's throat would typically result from punches, blows, or severe struggle. Dr Roger Malcolmson described as "fanciful" the defence suggestion that the infant could have...