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Television viewers across Ireland are to get an insight into life on Mayo’s furthermost outpost - the tiny island of Inishturk, located 14 kilometes off the coastline. It has a population of just 55 people.

“VISCERAL, BLACKLY comic and genuinely scary,” is how The Irish Times has described Revenant, by Stewart Roche.

THERE IS a peculiarly kid of Irish soul music, one which infuses r’n’b, jazz, rock, and folk, and whose original master, if not creator, is arguably Van Morrison.

An island which had been owned by a man who appeared in the Secret Millionaire show on RTE has been sold for more than €2.85m.

Conditions were good for the second annual Kilmovee 10k last Saturday afternoon. Some said it was very hot, but nobody among the record turnout of runners and walkers — 335 finishers — was really complaining. There were entries from 16 counties also. This year the event was the first race in the 2011 Mayo AC C&C Cellular

Images of daily life on the islands surrounding Ireland’s coastline are the subject of an exhibition entitled Island Life — The Islands of Ireland, assembled by the National Library of Ireland from its National Photographic Archive collections. Images of life in the early 20th century on Donegal, Mayo, and Galway islands form the exhibition which is currently on display at Áras Forbairt Acla, Keel, Achill Island, courtesy of The National Library.