{"id":423799,"date":"2026-04-29T18:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:18:43","slug":"a-ballina-eye-sore-to-be-addressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423799\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ballina \u201ceye sore\u201d to be addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An embankment located by the Ballina train station which has become notorious in recent times for its unsightly appearance is to be cleared, in news welcomed by Mayo Fine Gael Councillor Marie-Therese Duffy.<\/p>\n<p>The embankment, located on the Station Road entrance into the North Mayo town, has been a topic of discussion for some time now, with exposed ground, tree stumps, dead trees and waste on display.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, Councillor Duffy raised a motion concerning the matter; however local interest groups had been pursuing a cleanup for a time before that. She says the site is \u201cquite complex\u201d due to the number of tree stumps and rocks in place.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke about\u00a0 this clean-up to\u00a0 Midwest Radio\u2019s Rowan Kelly, with a contractor now on site\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MTBALLINA.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MTBALLINA.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An embankment located by the Ballina train station which has become notorious in recent times for its unsightly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-423799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}