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One thousand and fifteen musicians joined together on Keel Strand on Achill Island to break a world record for the greatest number of tin whistle players to play the same tune.

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.

Achill Island is set to get a new pub and shop in the tourist hot spot of Keel if a new planning application by a local developer is given the green light. Paul McNamara, who was recently approved by An Bord Pleanala for a major commercial and residential complex at Achill Sound, has now launched an interesting project to demolish the old Amethyst Hotel at Keel and bring the once-popular venue back to life as a major new pub.

An Achill teenager who died after his car plunged off the edge of a cliff and into the Atlantic Ocean was laid to rest this week.