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News, analysis, and features related to Co Mayo
Mayo man walking barefoot across Europe in effort to set new world record
Eamonn Keaveney is raising funds for youth mental health charity Jigsaw and Friends of the Environment Ireland
Nephin Energy agrees deal with Flogas to sell renewable gas at new Mayo plant
Construction begins on €50m biomethane plant in Ballinrobe which is slated to open in 2027
Beekeeper’s life marked by ‘quiet acts of compassion’, funeral hears
Kathleen Devine (73) was attacked by a colony while tending to one of her hives on Monday
Honeybee behaviour that killed Mayo woman ‘unprecedented’
Funeral of mother-of-three Kathleen Devine to take place on Friday
Mayo beekeeper Kathleen Devine dies after suffering multiple stings
Award-winning honey maker was well known among beekeeping community
Mayo bee death: Multiple stings increase chances of major anaphylactic shock
Anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction that happens very quickly, can be caused by food, medicine or insect stings
Woman (70s) dies after being stung by swarming bees in Co Mayo
Neighbours who came to victim’s aid in Ballycastle also stung during incident on Monday evening
Gena Heraty’s selflessness gives us hope in a dark time
Lay missionary, who was freed last week after being kidnapped in Haiti, is a shining light in a barbarous world
Island-hopping venture unveiled with unique perspective on Ireland’s Atlantic outposts
‘By inviting visitors to explore at a slower pace, to meet islanders ... we’re offering more than just a holiday’
‘A scheme for the wealthy’: Just 7% of applicants have had defective concrete homes fixed
Some 220 homeowners have had works completed under Defective Concrete Block Scheme out of 2,870 applications since June 2020
Downing Street warns against funding Palestine Action after Sally Rooney cash pledge
Author suggested she would use royalties from books and BBC adaptations to fund group banned in UK
Man arrested after motorcyclist seriously injured in Co Mayo collision
Motorcyclist (50s) in critical condition in hospital
The Irish caminos: Climbing the ‘passage of the birds’ - a Connemara rival to Croagh Patrick
Frank McNally on an ancient Connemara pilgrimage, once suppressed by the church but now happily revived
Mother from Mayo, father from Meath: How Irish are Oasis?
Visits to Ireland were a culture shock at first, but the future Britpop royalty ‘grew to love it’
Birdwatching in Ireland has changed remarkably in the past century and a quarter – for good and bad
Authors of seminal 1900 book The Birds of Ireland would be surprised by species’ decline, extinction and recovery
Father of girl killed in Co Mayo crash urges truck driver not to be ‘consumed by guilt’
Inquest held into deaths of Abbigael Tournié Moore (8) and her mother Aisling Moore (46) in collision on N26 road near Foxford in July 2024
‘People are expecting them’: Oasis fever hits town where the mother of the Gallagher brothers grew up
Liam and Noel Gallagher have spent lots of time in Charlestown where their mother Peggy grew up
Six good value restaurants across Ireland: From ‘bustling’ Dublin eatery to seaside fish and chips
Inventive restaurants that offer great food at affordable prices
Our house is now effectively worthless: Living Next Door To ... Ireland’s largest onshore wind farm
Oweninny Wind Farm in Co Mayo meets the power needs of some 140,000 homes a year
Long-awaited Sligo Greenway may be in jeopardy over Irish Rail objections
Company says disused line between Claremorris and Collooney should be retained for future Western Rail Corridor
Revealed: Ireland’s Greenest Places 2025 long list
Nominee places range from the shadows of Croagh Patrick to a once derelict dump site in Dublin’s Liberties
‘Significant failings’ at disability centre put residents at risk, watchdog finds
Non-compliance impacted the delivery of care to residents in 11 centres, says health watchdog
Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works review – Quietly persuasive, impressively original of the late Mayo musician
Keith Walsh has fashioned a touching study of a fascinating, if allusive, personality who died suddenly aged 36
Status Yellow wind warnings lifted across the State with power restored to thousands
Eight counties under alerts amid forecasts of dangerous driving conditions, flooding and structural damage
Bless Me Father by Kevin Rowland: Dexys star gives a powerful account of his life
The Colonel and the King by Peter Guralnick: Examining the life of Elvis Presley’s mysterious manager, Colonel Tom Parker
‘It’s sad’: Veteran laments fall in people climbing Croagh Patrick on Reek Sunday
The days of 30,000 pilgrims are gone - but local priest says more people than ever before scale Mayo’s holy mountain during the year
Suspended solicitor says ‘nothing sinister’ in his handling of land transfer deal
Judge to rule on later date on Declan O’Callaghan’s appeal over findings of professional misconduct
Suspended solicitor weaving ‘wholly false’ narrative over nature of land deal, High Court told
Appeal by Declan O’Callaghan over professional misconduct findings opens at High Court
Solicitor facing professional misconduct allegations over handling of €100,000 in client account
Michael A O’Brien, solicitor and principal of a firm of the same name based in Carrick on Suir, Co Tipperary, denies any wrongdoing
Bar manager (28) cleared of manslaughter over one-punch strike
‘You remain an innocent man,’ judge tells accused after unanimous jury acquittal
Owners surrender 60 XL Bullies to authorities after move to ban breed
TD warns of breeding practices where 8,000 pups registered annually but 25,000 for sale on dog website
‘As an Irish person with an English accent in Ireland, you have to sit there and take it’
The author’s show Am I Irish Yet? explores the experiences of a second-generation London-Irish person trying to fit in in small-town Ireland
Three men plead guilty to unlawfully killing Tom Niland
John Irving (31) pleaded guilty to manslaughter five days into his trial
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