A Clare Island stream running from the hill to the sea. The island is reached by ferry from Roonaugh Pier, 18 miles from Westport. Visitors make a trek to the abbey ruins where Grace O'Malley, the ...

THE West of Ireland is famous for many things - stunning mountain ranges, unspoiled beaches, and traditional music and culture. And there is a little known spot off the coast of Co. Mayo that packs ...

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Two years ago I fulfilled a long-held dream to sail around the west coast of Ireland. The weather behaved and I stayed up all night to watch the sunrise over Croagh Patrick. Nearing Clare Island, ...

Clare Island off the coast of County Mayo may become a new testing ground for the reintroduction of the Irish language. Fine Gael’s shadow spokesman on the Gaeltacht Affairs, Frank Feighan, has argued ...

Since our offshore islands are usually seen as the last bastions of traditional life, you don’t expect to see a woman saying Mass. At least, canonically speaking, leading a church service, in the ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a man who died after his car entered the water at Clare Island in Co Mayo on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased has been named locally as Charles O'Malley, 88, better known as ...

A dog in Clare County, that had previously been trapped on an island, has been safely caught. Towards the end of August, a female 2-year-old Great Dane was found to be trapped on an island on ...