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Walk to remember popular local historian

The Croagh Patrick Heritage Trail is hosting the Brian Hoban Memorial Walk in conjunction with Mayo Hillwalking Club tomorrow, Saturday, May 13. Many will remember Brian as a champion for local history, the heritage of County Mayo and the Irish ...

12 May 2023 at 11:42

Outdoor Living

Ashes to ashes

SHE is our Queen of the Forest. Our Norse neighbors called her Yggdrasil – the Tree of Life. So great are her virtues, says Pliny, that no serpent will lie in her shade. In ancient Greece she was sacred to Poseidon, god of the sea and of ...

11 May 2023 at 16:10

Outdoor Living

The magic of a shady garden

HAVE you heard the Cuckoo? Many people start gardening at this time of year; the rainy soggy cold days are over (hopefully) and the lengthening days and sunshine make us all want to make our gardens more beautiful. I think one of the ...

11 May 2023 at 16:07

Outdoor Living

Cut costs by growing your own

IF you’ve read this column before, you probably know how much I love to talk about food. It’s incredible that food is absolutely essential to our survival, but we’ve become totally disconnected from the knowledge of how to feed ...

11 May 2023 at 16:02

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GARDENING: Creating a rain garden

Since I came to live in the west of Ireland, I have been trying to find the beauty in rain and these cool wet summers. That sunny dry period in June is a distant memory now and we are having to cope with more extreme weather ...

18 Aug 2023 at 11:00

Living

Snoop for poop on Lough Carra

OTTER WATCH People are being asked to help collect otter spraint around Lough Carra, in a bid to learn more about this shy native species and its local population. Sometimes excrement is worth getting excited about Ciara ...

02 Mar 2023 at 13:49

Local News

A green spring clean in the garden

WEED NOW It’s an exciting time to be planting new things and watching last year’s plants reemerge – but now’s the time to tackle weeds too. Green Living McKinley Neal Now that spring is making itself known and there’s a ...

02 Mar 2023 at 13:39

Property

All hail the queen

BEAUTY QUEEN Among buff-tailed bumblebees, only the queens actually have a buff tail; the rears of the female workers and male drones are white. Pic: Flickr.com/S. Rae/CC-by-2.0 Country Sights and Sounds Michael ...

02 Mar 2023 at 13:41

Property

Prepping for the year ahead

LOOK SHARP After being in use all summer and autumn long, your trusty but sometimes-neglected secateurs will need sharpening to stay in good cutting condition. Twelve tasks that every gardener needs to think ...

22 Dec 2022 at 16:01

Property

Waders, divers and turn-it-overs

HARDY SOULS Turnstones visit our shores in winter, where they forage for invertebrates and other morsels hiding under pebbles and seaweed. Country Sights and Sounds Michael Kingdon Far below that treeless ...

22 Dec 2022 at 16:01

Property

Sitting beneath centuries

TIME CAPSULES Ireland was stripped of her forests for wood before the 19th century, and the country remains one of the least forested in Europe. Country Sights and Sounds Michael Kingdon On Carra’s woody ...

04 Aug 2022 at 12:29

Property

Delightful dahlias

The beautiful Cornel Brons In the Garden Eriko Hopkinsons August is here, and I am still travelling around my homeland - the sub-tropical islands of Okinawa. While I’m looking at bougenbryas and ...

18 Aug 2022 at 13:11

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