Aran Islands

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Aran Islands: on the road to Synge’s Chair, on Inishmaan. Photograph: Andy Haslam/New York Times
The ‘New York Times’ came to the Aran Islands. Here’s what it found
  • Ireland
  • September 13, 2018, 06:00

The last time I saw Brídín Concannon she was walking towards me along the narrow road on the westernmost edge of Inishmaan, off the west coast of Irel(...)

A postmortem examination was carried out at University Hospital Galway and following tests, the identity of the body was confirmed on Tuesday. Photograph: Eric Luke
Body washed up on Aran Island that of man missing in Clare

Gardaí­ have confirmed that a body discovered on the shoreline on one of the Aran Islands last Friday is that of a man who fell into the sea in Clare (...)

Tarlach de Blácam of the Inis Meáin Knitting Company: “There’s huge potential for us in online sales but we need decent broadband and, like others in rural Ireland, we feel neglected”
Aran Island outpost with designs on global knitwear market

Doing business from a unique location such as Inis Meáin was difficult in the early days for Tarlach de Blácam and his wife, Áine Ní Chonghaile, found(...)

Cyclists on Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands. Numbers flying to the islands last year increased by 2.5 per cent, from to 39,506. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien.
Aran Islands air service tender reopened after controversy

The Government has re-advertised the tender for the €3.6 million subsidised air services to the Aran Islands it cancelled in controversial circumstanc(...)