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Just outside Castlebar, located on 90 acres, Breaffy House Resort, comprising Breaffy House Hotel and Breaffy Woods Hotel, is rejuvenating itself and battling the recession, and according to the new general manager of the hotel, Wilson Bird, the “future is looking very bright” for the resort.

There can’t be many public servants who actively anticipate falling to their death some day, and even fewer who have the confidence of training not to worry about it, yet this is the office of outrageous that Lt Denis Gowran, a 1,000-jump veteran of the Black Knights - the Irish Army’s parachute display team - operates on a regular basis.

Some 45 million people around the Middle East are to see images of Mayo on TV, following the recent visit of a crew from Middle Eastern television station MBC1.

Middle Eastern visitors to next year’s Volvo Ocean Race Stopover in Galway will be treated to a sneak preview of what’s on offer in the city.

Leading travel agents from Dubai visited Glasson over Easter, as part of a fact-finding trip to Ireland. Invited here by Tourism Ireland, one of the highlights of their itinerary was a visit to Wineport Lodge.

Two big employers, Disneyland Paris and Irish Pubs Global, are to take part in this year’s GMIT Hotel School Careers & Recruitment Fair in GMIT Galway on April 6.

The Galway Rowing Club, which for more than a century has nurtured the potential of numerous young and gifted rowers, winning 28 Irish titles, is calling on all ex-members and other members of the public to give their support by taking part in its bumper Easter Sunday raffle next month.

The Galway Rowing Club, which for more than a century has nurtured the potential of numerous young and gifted rowers, winning 28 Irish titles, is calling on all ex-members and other members of the public to give their support by taking part in its bumper Easter Sunday raffle next month.

In our wisdom (not!) last August we packed up everything from our home in Galway to make this move. I mean everything. There were even logs in the log basket. Much remained unopened, predominantly books. Boxes and boxes of them and at that I have given scores of them to local charity shops.

In every era in history, there is watershed in which what was acceptable before is no longer the norm, that what was expected is no longer expected, that what was tolerated was no longer allowed to be the dominant way of thinking.