Comment & Opinion

TOWNLAND TALES John O’Callaghan visits Scottish engineer Alexander Nimmo’ bridges in Cuillaloughaun and Owenduff

COMMENT Fr Kevin Hegarty revisits Irish artists’ responses to Seán Ó Faoláin’s call out for descriptions of Ireland’s beauty

OPINION In his column ‘The Cast Stone’, Michael Gallagher reflects on values after a visit to Inishturk

OPINION John Healy on the rise of the Catholic Church in Ireland after the Famine

OPINION John Bradley argues the Westport to Achill railway failed not because it was a bad idea, but because the region was not ready

COLUMN John O’Callaghan looks at the history of the central Westport townland of Cahernamart