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Mayo mourns the loss of renowned author Michael Mullen

CASTLEBAR is mourning the loss of one its finest ever writers following the passing of Michael Mullen. Michael (pictured), who passed away on Sunday, was a prolific writer throughout his life, penning books on various subjects including children’s ...

20 Feb 2024 at 09:00

Comment & Opinion

COLUMN: The ‘somewheres’ and the ‘anywheres’

THE economics commentator Cormac Lucey has been reflecting recently on the polarisation of society. Peoples’ views are becoming more extreme; there is less middle ground anymore; we are either for one rigidly fixed idea or the other. Mr Lucey ...

04 Apr 2024 at 14:30

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Coming up for Eir

THE outgoing members of Mayo County Council may have taken some satisfaction in seeing one of its old foes finally getting its knuckles rapped in the Dublin courts last week. Eir, surely by a distance the most reviled public entity in the ...

25 Apr 2024 at 15:30

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: Losing the road-deaths battle

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 media campaigning, and ever-more graphic representations of road accidents and their ...

01 Aug 2024 at 15:30

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: The Galway priest and the Argentine scandal

Inside the main gate of the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires stands the imposing monument marking the burial place of Admiral William Brown, father of the Argentine Navy. Fifty metres further on, another burial stone marks the ...

25 Jul 2024 at 15:30

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: The iron fist of the wartime censor

For anyone under the age of 50, if they think about it at all, Irish muteness in non-condemnation of the Nazi atrocities of World War II is a deep mystery. That a nation which prides itself on its compassion for the oppressed ...

04 Jul 2024 at 15:30

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: The broad canvas of Tommie Gorman

His lifespan of 68 years may have been all too short, but Tommie Gorman achieved more in his journalistic career than most of his colleagues could dream of. And his canvas was a broad one – from sport to politics, from the ...

11 Jul 2024 at 15:29

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: The tidal wave at Westport Quay

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 Westport Quay nearly a century earlier. The story was recounted by the ...

30 Aug 2024 at 16:00

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Kicking hate-speech down the road

HAVING sustained the bloodiest of noses in the recent crushing referendum defeats, the Government has wisely edged back from its aim of enacting new hate-speech legislation. Nothing softens the cough of political ...

02 May 2024 at 15:30

Comment & Opinion

OPINION: Rwanda, and being careful what you wish for

WOULD we ever have thought that the UK’s Rwanda Bill could have had such unforeseen consequences for ourselves? Bad enough to have the Tory press chortling at the quagmire in which we find ourselves, but worse, ...

10 May 2024 at 21:00

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: A last sting of the Celtic Tiger

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 still hovers over the country’s financial sector. When the Irish ...

07 Nov 2024 at 13:29

Comment & Opinion

COUNTY VIEW: Shamrock diplomacy and a whole new challenge

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 symbolic gift on our behalf we won’t know for another couple of ...

13 Nov 2024 at 19:00

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