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Sailors face light winds in Ireland’s longest inland race

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A Dublin/Cork crew has become the lastest sailors to win the annual Cong-Galway race on Lough Corrib.

Mayo Social Inclusion Awareness Week coming up next week

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Mayo Social Inclusion Awareness Week (MSIAW) will take place from Monday October 15 to Sunday October 21.

‘Rather than die, the people submitted’

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The Great Famine of 1845 - 49 hit Achill Island particularly hard. Given the poor quality of its soil there was little or no alternative to the potato crop which failed throughout those years. Once the severity of the calamity became apparent, and that help from the government was begrudging and insufficient, there was a sensible coming together of Protestant and Catholic clergy to try to calm and feed the people.

 

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