features

Tripping the light fantastic

Willie McHugh visits a traditional céilí in Roundfort and discovers the Saturday night dance is alive and well in Mayo

Willie McHugh visits Ballinrobe Mart meets some of the personalities that have kept the show on the road for over 40 years

For the first time, all 32 Rose of Tralee contestants visited Mayo in the build up to this week’s festival

Willie McHugh chats to Senator Marie-Louise O’Donnell and discovers she is fiercely proud of her Foxford roots

Ciara Galvin meets up with Calum Best, who was in Foxford last week for RTÉ’s Celebrity Bainisteoir series

Intrepid reporter Willie McHugh goes back to Ballycushion National School, where he went as a child, to see how it has changed

Marie Farrell is the heart and soul of the Linenhall Arts Centre, itself the heart and soul of culture in Castlebar

INTERVIEW Ciara Galvin chats to 12-year-old Ian O’Reilly, who stars in comedian Chris O’Dowd’s upcoming sitcom Moone Boy

Over 100 members of the persecuted Karen ethnic minority in Burma are delighted to call Mayo their new home

Willie McHugh talks to Ciarán Burke, who spent his working life as a shopkeeper, publican and undertaker in Clonbur

Peter and Ray McHugh talk about the family’s famous mobile canteen, an institution around the roads of south Mayo

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