Thank God for hurling and the Olympics. We will forget about football for the time being.  The ancient game continues to produce modern-day Cú Chulainns of enormous skill and stature.

In the genteel world of garden bird-feeding, where tits flit, and robins boldly go, there's always one who refuses to play by the rules.

What places can you visit in Mayo that will give you a real sense of its history? The county is full of interesting sites from the ancient to the modern but many of them are impressive while being hard to make sense of.

As you drive through Moygownagh, the sight of Mitchell’s shop shut in the middle of the village is a sad and sobering vista.

As we face into the Olympic Games of 2024, we have in prospect a feast of human athletic endeavour. It seems the ambition to be the strongest or the fastest or the most accurate is part of our human condition; an opportunity to prove our worth.

The more observant of my readers will have noted that, by kind consent of the editor, the Return of Loftus at Large went missing this past couple of weeks, so I suppose one could say that the return of the column this week might correctly be ...

Making Irish boring was a feature of the Irish educational system, rather than a bug.

As I write, the Democratic Party in America is struggling to cope on four fronts: a series of gaffes on television that made President Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential election inevitable; the electoral gain its rivals, the Republic party, ...

I was fortunate enough to visit Uganda on a few occasions. I was excited to land at Entebbe Airport, made famous in the days of Idi Amin. Amin was a military officer who served as president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.

Music is at the heart of everything that Anne Moriarty does. Anne is the musical director and conductor of the Mayo Youth Orchestra, based at Music West in Castlebar.