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John BradleyThe Mayo News |
In a democracy, citizens delegate certain powers to governments, and the term ‘freedom of information’ has a comforting ring to it. It suggests...
I DID not pay much attention to the debate during the run-up to the recent referendum. It was not because of any lack of interest on my part. Heavy...
I was recently a guest at the Mayo Association in Dublin where Rita Casey was honoured as Mayo Person of the Year and the Meitheal Award was made to...
AS a child visiting my grandparents in Murrisk I was always aware that Clew Bay was out there, with its hundreds of islands and many inlets. But we...
I don’t suppose that there was ever a time when the world was truly at peace, people generally got on well with each other, and differences were...
Looking back from the vantage point of 2034, it’s hard to believe that over 30 years have passed since the start of the campaign to promote the...
I WAS never taught music at school. It was not on the curriculum. My sisters were sent to piano lessons, but this was not deemed necessary for the...
THERE is something compelling about the census of population compared with other official data. We can argue about the meaning of GDP, unemployment...
I READ in The Mayo News last Tuesday about a young Castlebar woman who was affected by the street rioting in Dublin on the evening of Thursday,...
When you begin to think about how badly Irish regions, counties and towns are governed, it’s difficult to think about anything else. After my last...
Mayo, the third-largest county in Ireland, has a small and dispersed population. It contains only three towns with a population of 5,000 or more:...
Just like Christmas, speculation about the annual October budget seems to start ever earlier. This year it kicked off dramatically on May 22 in an...
THIS year there has been a series of tragic road accidents and deaths that have caused sorrow and heartbreak in many small communities throughout the...
The recent publication of the All Island Strategic Rail Review (AISRR) prompted stinging, if very predictable, criticisms by a number of commentators...
As we observe the progress of the devastating war being waged by Russia in Ukraine, the most immediately compelling images are the ones showing death...