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From the comforts of Ballynahinch, such as they were at the time, William Makepeace Thackeray continues his exploration of the surrounding countryside as he gathered information for his successful Irish Sketch Book published some years after his tour in 1842.

Galway woke up this morning after a night of high winds and heavy rainfall lashed the west coast as Storm Ellen struck the country with full force.

In midsummer 1910 the artists Paul Henry and his wife Grace crossed the bridge into Achill Island, on the west coast of Co Mayo. They were both competent artists, but for Henry Achill was to be his great inspiration, leading to a style and an interpretation of the west of Ireland landscape that was to make him famous, and his work instantly recognisable.

Ireland’s fastest growing kombucha company All About Kombucha are going on the road this summer touring the Wild Atlantic Way. The team behind the Galway based fresh fermented sparkling tea will be visiting various West coast beach towns this August, with a purpose; to clean the beautiful beaches of Ireland's West coast and share their delicious teas with people along the way. The sparkling tea is made with wholesome organic ingredients and live culture and has gained huge popularity with health-conscious customers due to its gut health benefits.

After months of a holding pattern, action on the soccer fields across Mayo got back up and running last weekend with the first round of the Calor Gas Super Cup and Premier Cup.

Let West Coast Property Management take the hassle out of managing your rental property and do the heavy lifting for you. West Coast Property Management is a family-owned and operated business with years of experience in the housing and apartment rental market in Galway city and county.

Independent Cllr Christy Hyland hit out at people who have criticised the new N5 Westport to Turlough road project. Speaking at the February meeting of the West Mayo Municipal District, he said: "I will not call it the Westport to Castlebar road, there is talk it is taking five or ten minutes off the journey from Castlebar to Westport; I will say those people are ignorant - it is not a road from Westport to Castlebar. It is a road from the west coast of Mayo, commencing here in Westport and I am asking them to vision that in ten years it will link up with Mullingar and join on the dual carriageway into Dublin.

Living in Ireland during the mid 17th century was a frightening and a bloody time. Following the extreme political crisis that resulted in civil war in England, Ireland was plunged into a period of despair that would lead to the surrender of Galway, and the beginning of its gradual demise. The invasion by Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army, a ruthless exterminating machine, in 1649, led by Cromwell himself, not only destroyed all military opposition, besieged and ransacked towns, and imposed harsh penal laws on Catholic survivors, but it changed the demographic of the cities and lands with the resettlement of faithful Cromwellian generals, and their families. And in a new twist: tens of thousands of Irish people were transported to plantations in the West Indies, and elsewhere.

Pádraig Ó Céidigh was appointed to the department of botany in UCG, in the autumn of 1956. He arrived for his first lecture in his typically distinctive style, that would continue to the point of eccentricity, yet he would play a vital role in developing a small department in a prefab laboratory, into one of the leading world class marine science institutions in NUIG today.

O’Donnellan & Joyce Auctioneers had a wonderful day in the auction room for its nationwide property auction on Friday November 8, with more than 50 properties going under the hammer. Properties sold all along the Wild Atlantic Way including Donegal, Sligo, Longford, Mayo, Galway, and Clare and across the nation taking in properties in Westmeath, Kildare, Kilkenny, Wexford, and Dublin. It was the east coast properties that drew in the majority of internet and phone bidders while the room was packed to capacity with those who wanted to purchase the large number of Galway city properties.