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To judge by reports from around the country, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, summer festivals seem to be making a comeback. Maybe not quite the...
When it was announced last month that St Anne’s nursing home in Charlestown was to close down after 40 years of service, it represented a seismic...
In the repressive moral climate of the Ireland of the 1950s, there was little to ease the appetite of the prurient. English tabloids were unknown, and...
IF it takes a village to raise a child, the same principle can hold good in the opposite direction. In one of the most chilling books to have been...
County View John Healy It was more of a homecoming than a holiday trip when Doug Scott visited Castlebar a few weeks ago. Fifty years earlier, the...
County View John Healy The recent RTÉ expose of the fake psychologist who posed as an expert adviser to the HSE, but whose qualifications were...
County View John Healy With the Government cutting a stick to beat itself, and the opposition’s gleeful seizure of the opportunity, there was more...
County View John Healy It was more of a homecoming than a holiday trip when Doug Scott visited Castlebar a few weeks ago. Fifty years earlier, the...
County View John Healy It is no less than fitting that the first Tree of Liberty was planted at Templemary School near Killala last month in memory...
County View John Healy The first clash in what promises to be the mother of all culture wars takes place in Killarney next month, when two...
County View John Healy If we need a smile and a chuckle on those dark evenings, then a browse through the case rulings of the Workplace Relations...
County View John Healy When a Mayo nurse was sentenced to death at the Circuit Criminal Court at the end of 1956, she became the only person in...
County View John Healy Moore Hall was not the only stately home in Mayo put to the flames in the troubled years of the Civil War. Less than three...
County View John Healy A century after the devastation of the failure of the potato crop, few could believe that the country was about to face the...
County View John Healy Whatever will be the outcome of the Wilson’s Hospital teacher standoff, there is little doubt but that the central dispute...
County View John Healy Although revered in Israel to this day, Sergeant Mike Flanagan is almost unknown in his native land. And yet the Foxford...
County View John Healy Old hacks in journalism were always careful to advise newcomers against making fun of the misprints of those in rival...