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Rarely, if ever, has there been such a national rallying to the cause as that which marked the formation of the country’s Local Defence Corps. As...
There was a time when, every other week, most people’s email inbox would contain an unsolicited invitation to avail of an offer to become rich...
As a reminder of the global reach of The Mayo News , last week’s mail brought a missive from an Irish emigrant to South Africa. Maurice Egan, a...
The expression ‘Westmeath bachelor’ has long found its way into popular parlance. The late Joe Dolan sung his praises. And every year, the...
Stringent regulations against the ownership and control of dangerous dog breeds were introduced last year by the Department of Rural and Community...
Sad to relate, your columnist’s long-term relationship came to an end before Christmas. And while it would be wrong to say it left no scars, in the...
Of the many fine books published last year – and it was a bumper crop – few will have as much Mayo resonance as ‘The Enchanted Bay: Tales and...
The fate of the Green Party in the general election is a salutary lesson for any small party contemplating an invitation to participate in...
The last day of this month will mark the 25th anniversary of the ushering in of the new millennium, and nowhere was the occasion more fittingly...
While history will always associate the Races of Castlebar with the ignominious rout of the Redcoats by General Humbert, less well known is that...
Mayo’s voters go the polls on Friday in search of a General Election outcome more unpredictable than any before. With sixteen candidates in the...
A short five years since the iconic emblem of France lay shattered, gutted by fire, the restored Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral will reopen on...
At least we know now who will be accepting the bowl of shamrock in the White House on St Patrick’s Day next. Just who gets to hand over the...
Those with a taste for black humour will be amused to learn that, 15 years on, the dark shadow of what was the Irish Nationwide Building Society...
The recent travails of the Peter McVerry Trust have cast a timely light on the activities of the charities sector, a stratum of society that has...
Whatever naïve ideas we may have held about the respected status of peacekeeping forces in the conflict zones of the world have been well shattered...
In the stirring struggle for independence of 100 years ago, there are many stories of individual and family heroics that are little more than...
Forty-five years ago this week, the people of Mayo were still reflecting on the agony and the ecstasy of the visit to Knock Shrine of Pope John...
If vacuous commentary were an Olympic sport, then the Minister for Health would surely be an odds-on contender for the gold medal. In a profession...
With only six weeks to go to the US Presidential election, the only thing that remains certain is that it won’t finish on November 5. Already, the...
Two years ago, President Joe Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, the statute to make lynching a federal hate crime. A few...
Politics is a strange game, and American politics is stranger than most. The battle for the White House has been suddenly thrown wide open, and a...
In the 1993 issue of ‘Cathair na Mart’, the journal of the Westport Historical Society, the amazing story is told of the tidal wave that engulfed...
It began as what the authors claim was an innocuous children’s picture book 20 years ago. But now, two decades on, the story of the two gay...
There was a brief but interesting side discussion at a recent meeting of West Mayo Municipal District. The Louisburgh councillor, Chris Maxwell,...
It’s not possible to please all of the people all of the time, a truth which means that, in laying out their financial strategies, political...
According to Garda statistics, we are well on the road to reaching the highest death toll on Irish roads over the past 25 years. Despite intensive...
Inside the main gate of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires stands the imposing monument marking the burial place of Admiral William Brown,...
If you feel confused at the blizzard of predictions about the national housing demand, there is no need to feel humble. In the welter of...