In their song All the way from Tuam, the Sawdoctors describe the world they had come from. Anyone of my generation from the west of Ireland who listens to that song will well recognise the place and people it describes.

In the pantheon of true crime retellings, Ryan Murphy's latest opus, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, sits like a flashy, overwrought centrepiece - impossible to ignore yet equally impossible to digest without a strong constitution and a ...

One of these candidates is much slicker than the other, is a much more practiced, kinda professional, debate-style speaker - and the other candidate won.

News that Sligo County Council has voted for a defacto support for the reopening of the Western Rail Corridor from Sligo to Collooney is an important step forward for the region.

It is probably not an Irish thing but we are good at it. I’m talking about our penchant for adopting and adhering to good ideas for a while and then slowly but steadily wavering and then completely ignoring the good idea.

“And they’re off” conveys a sense of excitement and expectation at the start of what everyone hopes to be, for better or for worse, a memorable even a life-changing and possibly historic event.

The bramble berries were our food,  The water was our wine,  And the linnet in the self-same bush,  Came after us to dine.

Every time we use Knock Airport, we bask in the wonder of what a single-minded priest achieved on the hill at Barnacogue. Monsignor James Horan was an incredible man. He had a vision far ahead of his time for the West of Ireland.

Belmullet native Maureen McAndrew has always had a passion for fashion. After studying Fashion Styling and Display in Galway Technical Institute (GTI), Maureen explored various roles in retail, working in Galway and Castlebar.

A miracle awaits pilgrims in the tranquil, incense-laden air of Turin's Cathedral of St John the Baptist. It's not the kind that leaps out at you with trumpets blaring and celestial lights piercing the firmament.