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John BradleyThe Mayo News |
At its foundation in 1922, the Irish Free State had almost no manufacturing enterprises. The Census of Production in 1926 described an economy where...
The theme of my column this week is prompted by the recent launch of a new Irish sales portal (amazon.ie). In the past, when Irish consumers used the...
I was recently decluttering and came across a mountain of old reports and documents from an era before scanners were available or the ‘cloud’ had...
Unlike in many other countries, we seldom see uniformed military personnel walking our streets or on public transport. We have a kind of ‘hidden’...
Some years ago I was on car parking duty in Murrisk very early in the dark morning of Reek Sunday. The weather was dreadful: heavy rain and gale force...
There had been rough weather in the preceding days, but a calm had arrived and the currachs were launched to fish a few kilometres offshore. Groups of...
Concern about the decline of rural Ireland didn’t start in the 1950s. Today’s neglect of the northwest region had origins in the colonial period...
It took a while for the significance of Donald Trump’s victory on November 5 to sink in here. Countries such as Ukraine and the UK made pre-emptive...
THE Irish Times recently contained a curious column written by Michael McDowell, former leader of the Progressive Democrats (PDs), former Tánaiste...