Comment & Opinion

EDITORIAL Help keep local jobs and ensure much-loved businesses’ survival

DE FACTO Liamy MacNally looks at ‘Ocras: The Great Famine in Killala Diocese, 1845-1852’, a new book by Fr Brendan Hoban

COUNTY VIEW John Healy on the litany of procedural errors that that lead to the deaths of the blameless R116 crew off the Mayo coast

TOWNLAND TALES John O’Callaghan on the sloping cliff-edge pastures, or ‘fothairs’, of Achill and farther afield

AN CAILÍN RUA The repercussions of acting with kindness are manifold and always positive

EDITORIAL Minister’s comments revealing of Government’s view on Western Rail Corridor