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My mind goes back in time to the late 1980’s when Mayo were in the first All-Ireland since 1951 a- a total of 38 years. That year I was teaching as a trainee in Bofield School and I took the [...]

The two teacher school is under threat due to falling populations in rural areas. These schools date back to the early to mid-eighteen hundreds. They were opened in the 1840’s and later schools [...]

The 6th January is called the feast of the Epiphany but it has another name in Irish social history Little Christmas or Women’s Little Christmas or in the Irish language Oiche Nolliag na Mban. [...]

The soul and body should be grateful for simple things like the daffodils in the garden and the sound of bird song and the pealing of the chapel bells from the nearby church of Attymass close to [...]

On the Western People pages of the 7th June 1958 there is a short piece with the head line 500 Children Take Part in Big Display.  The event or display was the Foxford Liturgical Festival when [...]

The leaves are turning and the winter is nigh as I type this column on days gone by. As it gets colder and the time changes I am prompted to use the term mart weather for some reason this was the [...]