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Gáire as Gaeilge: A night of stand-up comedy as part of the Galway Comedy Festival, An Taibhdhearc will host a line-up of the best Irish speaking comedians who will deliver 90 minutes of jokes “as Gaeilge”. Potentially the most fun you can ever have in Irish... the craic will be 90!

Nineteen-year-old Anthony Gallagher was hanged on the Green in Castlebar on 29 August 1818. In 2018, I spent time at the National Archives searching for Gallagher while researching my history of prisons and capital punishment in County Mayo (Anatomy of a County Gaol).

Tributes were paid this week to the late businessman and honorary president and chairperson of Ireland West Airport Knock who has passed away.

Following the success of the inaugural Connacht Truck Show, held in conjunction with the 100th Claremorris Agricultural Show 2018, the event organiser Fleet Transport magazine has teamed up with the Claremorris Equestrian Centre to host the 2022 Connacht Truck Show, to be held on Sunday, June 5, during the public holiday weekend.

Home to Mayo presents a celebration of Irish culture, centre stage in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar on Saturday, May 28, featuring local, national and international musicians, singers and dancers.

Castlebar - the new single from Missing The Ferry - is released on Friday, April 29 - just in time for Mayo Day 2022. The tune is about the emigrants' yearning to return home to Ireland, which remains strong even as their grip on life weakens.

The Mayo senior hurlers picked up their first win of the season with a big win on the road in the Garden County - seeing off Wicklow by ten points and hitting 26 points of their own on the way to a 0-26 to 2-10 victory.

Castlebar Train Station opened on 12 December 1862. Claremorris opened the previous May; Westport followed four years later. As travel times decreased, those desperate to trade the poverty of Mayo for the hope of a better life in one of the burgeoning cities across the Irish sea could be in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester or London in two days.

Arthur Guinness began producing porter in 1778. The dark beer was brewed using roasted barley. This 1721 innovation - attributed to Ralph Harwood - gave the cocktail its characteristic colour and intense aroma.