There are many upsides to living on Achill Island. But challenges too. Like so many things in life, there’s a trade-off. It is an utterly beautiful place, a lovely place to raise a young family.

Last Saturday week, while most world leaders might have been contemplating matters of international diplomacy or domestic policy, Donald Trump was instead composing a social media post threatening to strip someone of their American citizenship.

As with so many anecdote-based, click-bait media articles these days, it began with a headline about an innocent victim.

Now that the merger of Killala and Tuam dioceses into a new ecclesiastical unit edges ever closer and the curtains are being drawn on ‘the way we were’, I’ve been throwing my eye over the soon to be defunct dispensation that was once Killala diocese ...

Every so often, but especially in summer, I am reminded of our early farmers. I wonder did they have the same struggles with saving a few wisps of hay or getting a cow in calf. My answer is always the same; they probably did.

On Saturday, July 5th, 2025, in the quiet parish rectory of Cannobio, overlooking the serene waters of Lake Maggiore, Fr Matteo Balzano reached a conclusion that defies our understanding.

The Oireachtas will take its summer break at the end of this week. The reaction will be the same as it is every year. There will be lots of reports of, and discussions about, public outrage.

On the island where one of her famous castles still stands sentry, the legend of Granuaile came alive in spectacular fashion late last month.

June was entering its last day, around 12:45am on a Sunday morning. At the intersection of Atlanta Avenue and Delaware Street in Huntington Beach, an Audi RS5 was travelling east when it struck a pedestrian just beyond the Delaware Street junction.

In the shadow of the round tower, where history whispers through the corridors of Turlough Park, a leather bag tells a story that would make the most hardened cynic pause for breath.