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In the Ireland of fifty to sixty years ago there were very few cars and people had to walk, cycle or go by cart to the town and village to shop.  Then along came the motor car to the small [...]

A new scheme has been introduced by the Ballina Municipal area in north Mayo known as the Traditional Facades Grants Scheme.  The aim of the project is to provide funding to businesses that opt [...]

Recently I saw a piece in this paper about the possible use of the parochial house in Foxford as a community facility to welcome people who had travelled long distances to masses.  They would [...]

It is some thirteen if not more years that I began to write about the east mayo brigade and met an excellent character from the Kilkelly area to assist me Jimmy Duffy Jimmy knew most of the [...]

There was never much of a living to be made from a small holding in the west of Ireland and in Mayo in particular.  This meant that farmers from these areas had to leave for English farms to earn [...]

There was never a Sunday when the two kind neighbours in Graffy would not bring us to see the big game between Mayo and the maroon of Galway it was highlight in our lives and a great day out to [...]

The recent visit of Vice President of the US Mr. Joeseph Biden to Ballina centred around garden from whence his ancestors came in 1835.  Garden Street was one on of the most populated areas in [...]

The street names go back to the 1820’s and they are documented in Pigot’s Directory of 1829.  Most of the street names around the town centre and between the Centre and Belleek castle are there [...]

Joe Healy was from Ballina and he took an active part in the War of Independence and the Civil War.  He went on the run into the South Mayo area where he was surrounded and shot at Stonepark near [...]

There was a time when time was just that time and people got things done in season.  This was important in an agrarian society where the farm work had to be done at the proper time of year and [...]