News last week about tourist and visitor numbers coming into Ireland provide some food for thought.

There's something guilt-inducing about watching a documentary on the making of a charity single designed to feed the starving masses of Africa while lounging on a well warmed sofa, picking at the remains of a pizza and sipping a cold beer.

The race for the five Dáil seats in the upcoming general election in Mayo has been transformed by declarations in recent weeks.

Cardinal William Conway (Archbishop of Armagh and the leader of the Irish Catholic Church, 1963-'77) was known as ‘a cute man’ who had a talent for playing his cards close to his chest.

Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone had the numerical superiority, with the English army pinned between his Gaelic forces and their besieged Spanish allies in Kinsale town.

I went along last week to see Agreement, the play which depicts the last days leading up to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

Netflix's latest venture into the well-trodden field of narco-dramas, Griselda, enters like a Colombian caricature wearing last season's Versace and wielding a plastic machete.

An accountant by trade, Andrea Kean has recently returned to Mayo to work in her family’s business.

Most villages and small towns around the Ox Mountain region had an operational mill at one time or another.

One of my favourite writers, A. N. Wilson, has written yet another book, Goethe: His Faustian Life – though I doubt (despite my own enthusiasm) that it will be a best-seller.