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Bringing it all back home for centenarian celebrations

COLOURFUL LIFE Gerardine Hopkins Cusack in the pub where she was born 100 years ago. Pic: Michael McLaughlin Áine Ryan CENTENARY celebrations have a very personal meaning for one Westport woman. She was born in the year of the First DΡil, on the ...

09 Apr 2019 at 13:54

Local News

Triumphing over evil

Second Reading Fr Kevin Hegarty Next Saturday is Holocaust Memorial Day. It is an opportunity to remember what we should never forget. The Nazi project was first to rid Germany and Austria of Jewish people, and ultimately to exterminate the ...

23 Jan 2018 at 13:48

Living

Discovering hidden history

MAYO'S MARK The Éire 64 marking at Downpatrick Head. Pic: Conor Corbett Belfast man Conor Corbett has spent the last number of weeks photographing the World War II Éire markings in Mayo Anton McNulty EARLIER this year, a huge gorse fire in ...

06 Nov 2018 at 13:38

Property

INTERVIEW Jumping into the past

STEPPING OUT Henry Moroney, poised to jump from a World War II C-47 aircraft during the 68th anniversary of Operation Market Garden. ?Pic: Michael de Boer Jumping into the past Interview Ciara Moynihan When it comes to hobbies, many have ...

30 Oct 2012 at 14:11

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Mayo Lighthouse fly-over being explored for D-Day celebrations

THE possibility of a military aircraft flyover of Blacksod Lighthouse is being explored for June as part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings in 1944. A number of events are currently being organised to take place ...

28 Mar 2024 at 15:30

Local News

‘The Weather Girls’ who changed world history from the coast of Mayo

Inspired by true events that went unrecognised for 70 years, a new children’s book by Sarah Webb captures the hidden history of Ireland’s role in the second World War for young readers. Published by The O’Brien Press, ‘The Weather ...

30 Apr 2024 at 11:00

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Funeral arrangements announced after death of D-day heroine Maureen Sweeney

The funeral arrangements have been announced for a woman in Mayo whose weather forecast changed the timing of the D-Day landings. Maureen Sweeney of Blacksod, Belmullet, a native of county Kerry, was in her 101st year. She ...

18 Dec 2023 at 12:43

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WATCH: Sarah Webb reveals personal connection to Maureen Sweeney's D-Day story

Watch the video how writer Sarah Webb explains her very special personal connection to her most recent book 'The Weather Girls': View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Mayo News (@themayonews)

14 May 2024 at 17:32

Local News

Achill Fr Manus Sweeney memorial unveiled 80 years ago

As World War II raged and roared hundreds of miles away from Achill Island in the 1940s, a group of local people which included Fr Godfrey, Eva O’Flaherty, Anita MacMahon, and post master John Barrett, came together to ...

11 Jul 2024 at 10:30

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