Manorhamilton

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Steph and Tony Booth walking near the house they were renovating near Blacklion Co Cavan. Photograph: Frank Miller
My life, my muse and a gentlemanly master chef

A doctor encounters thousands of patients in a lifetime’s work. Some they remember, while others fade away into the depths of memory. Most of us have (...)

Author and arthritis sufferer Ann Marie Healy at her home in Glenamoy, Co Mayo. Photograph: Keith Heneghan / Phocus
In pain from her early years – the woman who made the most of it

I was born into a family of 16 children, 6 girls and 10 boys (one brother, Thomas Patrick, died when he was seven months old) in the rural village of (...)

Gardaí stopped a car in Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, because of a report that it had driven away from a filling station in Sligo without paying for petrol.
Man who had explosives before 2015 Prince Charles visit jailed

A man has been convicted of possessing explosives in Co Leitrim days before Prince Charles’s 2015 visit to Ireland . In May 2015 during a four-day vi(...)

The Government is expected to stump up about half the cost of the National Broadband Plan here, which could be between €1 billion and €1.5 billion
Government set to release final broadband intervention map

The Government is expected to finalise the number of homes and businesses covered by the National Broadband Plan (NBP) this week. This follows a repo(...)

From left: Julie Byrne, Sarah McGovern, and Kate Sheehan celebrate getting their Leaving Cert results, at Muckross Park College, Donnybrook, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke
A Q&A guide to reading the feeder schools list

Check school rankings on the Feeder Schools app: www.irishtimes.com/feeder-schools/ Download the Feeder School PDFs here: www.irishtimes.c(...)

Stephen Feeney (far right) with his cousins Eamon, Andy, Janice, Liam and Rhian Neitzel while tubing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stephen spent Christmas on the farm of his aunt Peggy, who emigrated to the US in 1966 from Killargue, Co Leitrim.
Thinking of home and family as spring arrives in Chicago

Growing up, this time of year always bought great expectation in my family home. During this window when winter was ending and summer was on the horiz(...)

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin with FF TDs as they arrive for the first day of the 32nd Dáil. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images
Grand coalition still not adding up for Fianna Fáil grassroots

They don’t like the term, “grand coalition”, the Fianna Fáil grassroots. There’s nothing grand at all about the idea of serving as a junior partner, o(...)

Ronan Haslette (left), MD of Merenda Wood Veneer, at the Dubai Woods 2014 show with Sean Davis, regional director Enterprie Ireland Middle East and North Africa
Family business overlaid with agility, adaptability and quality

Merenda is a family-owned firm specialising in wood veneer products which are made in their factory in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. The company celebrat(...)