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In January 1831, Mr Kyle, self-styled Professor of Dancing and Composer to the Irish Court, published an invitation to a Grand Ball at the Great Rooms in Castlebar Courthouse on the Green.

Following the inability of Tom Martin and his daughter Mary, the Princess of Connemara, to meet the debts on their vast encumbered estate, they were sued by the Law Life Assurance Society and ordered to sell it in its entirety.

After her Connemara tour Maria Edgeworth kept up a correspondence with the Martins. She followed their fortunes and misfortunes with all the attention of an enthralled novel-reader. There was plenty to hold her attention. In the spring of 1835 the Martins travelled to London where Mary was presented at court and moved in fashionable society, attending dinner parties and charity events, of which a cynical Lord Byron remarked that these galas were nothing less than a marriage market.

The award-winning Shamrock Lodge Hotel wish to extend a hearty congratulations to all those recently engaged, sincerely hoping you enjoy the celebrations to come!

Like the many, I too have travelled the route to England through the port of Holyhead and then onwards east through Wales until the seemingly unintelligible road signs suddenly appear comprehensible.

The award-winning family run Shamrock Lodge Hotel wish to extend a hearty congratulations to all those recently engaged hoping you enjoy the celebrations to come!

 When Clare Sheridan bought Spanish Arch House in the late autumn of 1946, she was seeking refuge from an eventful life, to find peace and quiet to continue her sculpture, and needed time to give expression to her religious fervour. She had recently converted to Catholicism, and could not resist telling anyone who listened ‘how exciting it was to be a Catholic.’

A momentous occasion in the history of the Shamrock Lodge Hotel was recalled this week, the visit of the iconic Princess Grace to the popular family run establishment taking place 60 years previously, on June 14, 1961.

SHE LOOKS like a blue haired version of She-Ra's Entrapta, armed with an equally colourful array of hip hop, garage, and pop beats - even a touch of emo - and an attitude that screams 'women power'.

Pandemic-friendly Ballina Fringe Festival is gearing up to bring much needed fun, laughter and colour to the streets of Ballina.