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Exhibition and new booklet focus on Lough Carra

TRANQUIL WATERS ‘Quinn’s Bay’, Lough Carra, taken by Lynda Huxley. Award-winning nature cinematographer and presenter Colin Stafford-Johnson will launch photography exhibition ‘Qualities of Water’ along with the publication ‘Lough Carra - A Gem ...

04 Feb 2020 at 13:55

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Boat engines stolen at Lough Mask

Boat engines are stolen at Lough Mask sites Crimes prompt calls for CCTV cameras Ciara Galvin ciaragalvin@mayonews.ie Three boat engines were stolen in the last two weeks from Cahir Pier and Burke’s Island on Lough Mask, close to Ballinrobe. ...

03 Sept 2013 at 11:26

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NATURE: A winter’s dawn at Lough Carra

First light. The air is still, the only sound that of late leaves falling softly through a maze of branches, through twigs and twiglets, to the woodland floor. The ground is crisp with just an edge of frost, the sky open, broad, fringed ...

09 Dec 2023 at 10:00

Living

NATURE: Puckish duck scuppers an evening’s fishing on Lough Carra

Eager to meet another trout before season’s end, I took the boat beyond the reeds to find the western shore. There, where bulrush form clumps of dense, dark green, where shallow water shelves to three-metre depth, I came upon a cluster ...

14 Sept 2024 at 14:30

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Swan songs and rising tides

MUTE NOT MEEK Not all welcome the whooper swan. Here, a resident mute swan on Lough Carra does his best to drive away an Icelandic visitor. Pic: Michael Kingdon Country Sights and Sounds Michael Kingdon It was just on dusk that our ...

23 Nov 2021 at 11:00

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NATURE: Comings and goings of a Mayo winter

HOW we miss those heady days of early spring, when dawn is filled with eager birdsong and the sun filters through a canopy of new green to warm the ground. Now, with that same sun fled far south, a dark and cold blanket of damp ...

10 Nov 2023 at 18:30

Outdoor Living

COUNTRY SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: Murder most fowl

My wildflower walk took me to the Carra’s northern shore, where orchids still grow in abundance. Last month we found fly orchid and bee orchid, as well as the rare and red-listed O’Kelly’s orchid, which appears just ...

21 Jul 2023 at 13:24

Living

NATURE: Winters past at the big house in Moorehall

Nights such as this are the highlights of the year. The air is still, or nearly so and, to new ears, just as silent. It is only gently that sounds reveal themselves: crisp leaves barely lift under the most delicate ...

31 Dec 2024 at 17:30

Local News

Moorehall’s fortunes come full circle

County View John Healy The news that Moorehall, on the shores of Lough Carra, has been acquired by Mayo County Council has been hailed as the closing of a chapter in our history. And it represents a singular ...

16 Jan 2018 at 15:24

Property

Taking flight

FLYING ANT DAY Each year brings a spectacular and spontaneous irruption of flying ants, as the males and virgin queens suddenly develop wings and take to the air. Pic: istock Country Sights and Sounds ...

25 May 2021 at 10:00

Living

NATURE: Swallows arrive to Lough Carra

AN UPDRAFT of sunlit air swept in from the west to pull at the water and send light, like shards of daggered steel, rippling as far as the reeds. I had been watching a pair of great-crested grebes at ...

26 Apr 2024 at 14:30

Property

Trading places and changing tunes

BLACK MARKET The changing season sees hungry blackbirds from afar join those already resident to load up on whatever food is in stock. Country Sights and Sounds Michael Kingdon Changes are afoot ...

09 Dec 2021 at 15:12

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