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The members of Mayo County Council this week nominated legendary broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh for the Pádraig Pearse award.

A Castlebar man was acquitted of assaulting his first cousin at Castlebar District Court this week. Charlie McDonagh of 37 Meadow Park, Castlebar, was tried for assaulting his first cousin Bernie McDonagh on July 20 2010 in Cois Abhainn, Castlebar.

Irish emigrants have made major contributions to Canadian, Argentinean, American, British, and Australian life, but what might the world have missed out on if the Irish had not emigrated?

As the emigration trend continues to draw young and old from our shores, new networking groups to connect Irish people abroad are coming on stream.

The death of a man from Mayo in 2008, whose body was not discovered in his New York home for a week, has led to a census of elderly Irish people in the New York borough of Queens being launched.

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Padraig Pearse’s can count themselves lucky to get a second bite at the cherry to retain their senior status. A late equaliser deep in injury time from the boot of Sean Fahey ensured that both sides would have to do it all again this Sunday.

The Western Family History Association will host the Seminar on Irish Genealogy 2010 in the Claregalway Hotel on Saturday.

SINCE THE early Irish monks began laboriously to compile the Annals of Ireland the writing of the ‘History of Ireland’ has become something of a national sport for academics, historians, retired schoolteachers, journalists, with the odd eccentric thrown in for good measure.