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News, analysis, and features related to Co Mayo
Cyclist in his 50s dies after Co Mayo crash
Gardaí appeal for witnesses and camera footage after incident on the N84 near Ballinrobe
‘No safety barrier’: Sligo binman died after fall from defective lorry, court hears
Inquest jury finds death was due to severe brain injury following workplace accident
Enoch Burke launches fresh court challenge over school dismissal
Latest case is against disciplinary appeals panel, school board and Minister for Education
Maloney family seek over €10m for Mayo’s Mount Falcon Estate
Businessman Barry Maloney and his brothers seek buyer for luxury country-house hotel on 95 acres
Ballina school cast into bureaucratic spotlight as movable EU presidency feast rolls on
Employment and Social Affairs Council brings ministers and officials to Co Mayo town for first formal meeting of Ireland’s six-month run
Good going: The horse-training landlord who helped thousands of tenants survive the Famine
Mayo landowner George Henry Moore was a trailblazer who said Charles Trevelyan was a ‘dogmatist that no experience could instruct’
Calleary appeals to unions to join pay talks
EU social protection ministers meeting in Minister’s Mayo constituency
‘Our lives have changed unimaginably’: The people who quit city life for rural Ireland
Families who moved from city life share the freedoms, challenges and surprises of building a new life in the countryside
Planning request by fireworks supplier who worked on Taylor Swift concerts should be reconsidered, judge rules
Previous decision to refuse permission to install shipping container underground for storage of pyrotechnics in Mayo was quashed
Highest temperature in Ireland 27.9 degrees in Co Cork as Britain records hottest ever June day
Status yellow high temperature warning is in force in Ireland until Friday morning
Child killed in Co Mayo road traffic incident
Incident took place on the N59 near Ballina on Sunday morning
A new-build home in Mayo: ‘We left two six-figure jobs in Florida to come to Ireland with no plan’
Photographer Jessica Glynn gave up life in Florida to move to Co Mayo with her husband and daughter. She’s enjoying the slower pace and the chance to put her stamp on their new-build home
How the Westport was won: Frank McNally on an unscheduled but educational night in Mayo
An ancestor of visiting Canadian prime minister Mark Carney took part in a ‘great cattle drive’ in defiance of landowner Lord Sligo
Sun shines on Mark Carney as Aughagower welcomes world leader
With its small stone bridges and babbling stream, the Co Mayo village made for a picture-postcard backdrop for a returning Irish emigrant
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney returns ‘home’ to Co Mayo
Premier traces his heritage back to Aughagower, where his grandparents were born
Scrap-happy cafe brings new life to Monaghan town: ‘You could replicate this all over the country’
Every bit of the Genesis Cafe fit-out is reimagined from waste material, much of it pulled out of skips
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s grandfather’s heroics during the Civil War
Robert Carney held off a mob of anti-Treaty demonstrators who tried to storm a guard station in Co Wicklow
The Irish Times view on Mark Carney: setting an example
Former central banker has emerged as political leader of real substance
‘He had one dream’: The Mayo De La Salle brother who built a top Asian art college
Singapore's Lasalle College of the Arts started as a school with 27 students is now one of the leading art colleges in southeast Asia
Two children airlifted to Temple Street children’s hospital after Mayo crash
Collision occurred on N59 at Clooneen, near Westport
‘He looks awful like Gramps Carney’: Mayo relatives set for visit of Canada’s PM
Mark Carney will visit the village of Aughagower this Sunday where his ancestors hailed from
What will €225,000 buy in Drogheda and on Achill Island?
A period two-bed in heart of Drogheda or a three-bed bungalow on the Wild Atlantic Way
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney to visit Ireland next week
Carney will make trip to Co Mayo to see grandparents’ home place
Mary Kennedy: ‘I lost that adult relationship with my dad and I’d give anything to have it back’
TV presenter Mary Kennedy on her happy disposition, her late dad and her unusual way of controlling the television volume
Local authorities must take centre stage in fight against rising toll of road deaths
We have designed roads to suit cars and trucks to the point where it is not safe to walk or cycle
Event guide: Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, Forbidden Fruit and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
May 30th-June 5th, 2026: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week
Couple ‘vindicated’ after coroner rules medical misadventure in case of stillborn baby girl
Court hears Marion Hunt was not offered C-section during ‘difficult’ birth of baby Amelia Rose in December 2023
O’Donovan gave women’s museum immediate backing to replace failed Limerick rugby project
Advisory report noted establishment of museum commemorating women was a ‘long-term vision’
The ‘Taj Mahal of dereliction’: A ghost estate on the outskirts of Castlebar, Co Mayo
Twenty years after the Waterways estate was granted permission, it remains an unfinished, unresolved memento of the Celtic Tiger
Hobby holidays: Nine places to engage with your passions, from hiking to horseriding
Learn the harp, embrace meditation or just go for a walk with new friends in rural splendour
A diplomatic perspective: ‘Over the last year, I’ve moved house, job, and country’
Patrick Reilly, deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Ireland, on growing up in an Irish household in Manchester, trying to get into the Hacienda and more
Push is on to save LIFE as EU looks to scrap nature funding scheme
LIFE programme vital to efforts to bring Ireland’s corncrakes back from the brink
Mayo firm must repay €100,000 after over-claiming EU grant funding
Coastal Zone Services Ltd received €549,959 in funding through grants from funding body for scientific research and innovation in the bloc
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