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Jake Bagnell has not been seen since Friday, January 25th
Boy (13) missing from his Co Mayo home since Friday morning

A 13-year-old boy is missing from his Co Mayo home since Friday morning. Gardaí on Saturday issued an appeal in an effort to find Jack Bagnell from (...)

ESB workers are working on multiple power outages following Storm Callum. Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill/THE IRISH TIMES
Storm Callum: Less destruction than expected but hundreds still without power

Storm Callum has caused less destruction than was expected, according to the National Emergency Coordination Group, with hundreds of households still (...)

Dancing at the Metropole in Dublin in 1968. Photograph: Kevin McMahon
‘Scoundrels of the lowest type’: When the priests took on dancing

“Dance halls should be closed at 11pm at latest - otherwise, they (are) a menace to morality.” Bishop Patrick McKenna of Clogher didn’t mince his word(...)

Representatives of the Garda and Coast Guard with relatives of those who died in the Lacken drowning disaster in 1927 at the ceremony at Lacken Pier, Co Mayo. Photograph: Keith Heneghan
Storm which took 45 lives remembered in Connemara and Mayo

Irish Coast Guard volunteer Amy Lynott believes she owes her affinity with the Atlantic to her great-grandfather Thomas Lynott, who lost his life off (...)

A Mass will take place at 1pm on Inishbofin, Co Galway. Photograph: Frank Miller
Cleggan Bay disaster of 1927 to be marked this weekend

One of the west coast’s worst marine accidents in the past century is due to be commemorated in Connemara and north Mayo at the weekend, when the loss(...)

The sun sets behind Irish Lights vessel Granuaile, anchored off Black Rock in Co Mayo, where dive teams are searching the wreckage of Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116: the tragedy has brought back painful memories of other losses at sea. Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA Wire
Rescue 116 search brings back painful memories in north Mayo

Silhouettes of Achill Head, Croaghaun and Slievemore against a blue sky and flat, calm sea off Blacksod on Friday belied the treacherous nature of the(...)

Dawid Dawido with a fine Cong River trout of 57cm, or approx. 5lbs, caught on dry fly
Angling Notes: Media group takes in some fishing – and GAA

Gaelic football was never more exciting as in Burkes of Clonbur last weekend as Galway took on their arch-rivals Mayo for a place in the Connacht fina(...)