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John BradleyThe Mayo News |
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...
Political process in Ireland is rather different from most other EU countries. The biggest difference is that among the main political parties,...
I was canvassed last week by an aspirant TD from one of the government parties. Our cottage is on the slopes of Croagh Patrick, close to the exit...
On October 27, The Guardian newspaper featured an article under the heading ‘Simon Harris says lack of infrastructure could become a ‘drag’ on...
As I approach my one hundredth fortnightly column for The Mayo News, I have begun to reflect on how writing this column has accompanied a gradual...
In most democracies, election campaigns are an opportunity for conflicting views of how a society ought to be run to be debated vigorously and...
Reading about upcoming TV programmes, I happened on this description of a documentary called ‘10 Mistakes That Sank The Titanic’: “This...
Irish general elections have become rather dull affairs. It was very different in 1932, the first election in the Irish Free State, when the anti-...
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew the first powered aeroplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On Sunday, June 15, 1919, Alcock and Brown...
I’VE been an avid reader all my life. As children, growing up in Dublin in the 1950s, we bought comics in the local shops and borrowed books from...
The attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, and the dramatic images that emerged from it,...
In a country ruled from the centre, power resides at the centre. Ambitious politicians may start their careers in the provinces, but the centre...