Vice-presidential nominees have “virtually no impact”, according to Donald Trump, when recently asked if JD Vance would be ready to take over "on day one if he has to be".

Who doesn’t want to beside the sea for at least part of the summer? In this, the last of three articles exploring some of the sites of Mayo that illuminate our history, we start at the seaside and the end of the 18th century.

I’m not a Facebook fan so I seldom get to see what goes up there. However, I hear that the column in which I adverted to my recent brush with medical fame elicited responses from a bunch of readers who wished me well and a speedy recovery.

Despite many perils, the fox survives in the Ox Mountains. It seems at times that the tougher it gets for the fox, the better he is able to cope with the changes and hardships that are hurled at him.

Every bit of the Irish landscape has seen a lot of history: as Seamus Heaney put it in one of his poems, ‘every layer seems camped on before'.

Not so long ago, a dinner plate in Ireland was considered incomplete without a generous helping of potatoes. A savoury dish, stewed, boiled, baked, or grilled, was inevitably accompanied by a mound of chopped or mashed spuds.

Nessa Garvin never imagined her hobby would turn into a successful business, but she has done just that in a very short space of time. A Cavan native, Nessa moved to Belmullet with her husband and two children in 2020.

We'll call him Paul because that’s not his real name - at least according to his Lyft profile. He picked me up on Main Street and 5th in downtown Los Angeles, just a few blocks from Skid Row.

In the light of my reflections last week on the subject of priests’ changes, a reader both commends me for a column I wrote some months back and challenges me to comment on what he presents as a grim reality for priests (and people) in parishes now.

It is something that he more than hinted at in recent months but confirmation of the news that Michael Ring will not run in the next Dáil election was still a surprise.