Killala

There are almost 45,000 empty homes and commercial properties in the west, northwest and Border region, according to new analysis on the area with th(...)

Regional studies of the Great Famine afford historians writing about the larger picture a wider and more detailed canvas against which to check t(...)

I am torn. A rather negative starting point I must confess, but let me elaborate. On the one hand I hear the echoing voices of my now adult children e(...)

An Irish pilot has died in a traffic crash in Mexico. Ambrose Blaine (55) a married father of three who came from Killala in Co Mayo, but was living (...)

One Catholic bishop is to be appointed to two west of Ireland dioceses following a Vatican decision that could mean further reductions of such bishops(...)

A number of former and current Irish Coast Guard officers have criticised the poor treatment of volunteers by the organisation’s management, amid grow(...)

Build and they will come; but golfer Nick Faldo never managed the former on the Mayo island of Bartragh, and the island has now been sold, bringing to(...)

Church leaders in the west of Ireland have called on the Government to offer “full and immediate redress” to the thousands of people whose homes have (...)

It is doubtful if the reforming Catholic priest and novelist Gerald O’Donovan, who was born 150 years ago on July 15th, is much remembered nowadays bu(...)

From Dunfanaghy in Donegal to Duncannon in Wexford, Ireland's beaches offer something for everyone this summer For most of us, seaside resorts a(...)