The Best Place to Live in Ireland – Irish Times


Irish Times

The Best Place to Live in Ireland
Irish Times
But it is not just the well documented, world-class scenery that makes me proud to be from Achill Island, but something visitors do not see very readily on their whistle-stop weekend breaks or summer vacations. That something is our sense of community, ...

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Visit the New Titanic Belfast Experience and Ireland’s Other Top Destinations … – Sacramento Bee


Visit the New Titanic Belfast Experience and Ireland's Other Top Destinations ...
Sacramento Bee
Travelers enjoy a host of exceptional travel experiences, including dinner and a show at Taylor's Three Rock; a medieval banquet and performance at Bunratty Castle; visits to Giant's Causeway, Achill Island, historic Derry and Waterford walks, ...

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Visit the New Titanic Belfast Experience and Ireland’s Other Top Destinations … – MarketWatch (press release)


Visit the New Titanic Belfast Experience and Ireland's Other Top Destinations ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Travelers enjoy a host of exceptional travel experiences, including dinner and a show at Taylor's Three Rock; a medieval banquet and performance at Bunratty Castle; visits to Giant's Causeway, Achill Island, historic Derry and Waterford walks, ...

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Are there tornadoes headed our way this weekend? – JOE


Are there tornadoes headed our way this weekend?
JOE
... currently, on the Met Eireann site. Would tornadoes be unusual anyway? I'm sure we have had a few here in recent years. Indeed we have, and a quick check on YouTube throws up loads of footage of twisters . There's this from Achill Island in 2010.

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Italian journalists fly into IWAK on new Milan Bergamo service – Mayo Today


Italian journalists fly into IWAK on new Milan Bergamo service
Mayo Today
As well as visits to the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar, Foxford Woollen Mills and Westport House, the journalists also cycled the Great Western Greenway route and enjoyed a drive on Achill Island. Their itinerary also included a visit to the ...

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JOE’s Weight Watchers Challenge Week 11 – JOE


JOE's Weight Watchers Challenge Week 11
JOE
Actually, last Wednesday I had to weigh in at a different class as I didn't have time to get back to Achill Island to weigh in there. I had to go to class on the main land and I have to say that the reception that I got in the Bellmullet class was ...

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Italian journalists sample Ryanair’s Milan to Knock route – Businessandleadership.com


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Italian journalists sample Ryanair's Milan to Knock route
Businessandleadership.com
As well as visits to the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar, Foxford Woollen Mills and Westport House, the journalists also cycled the Great Western Greenway route and enjoyed a drive on Achill Island. Their itinerary also included a visit to the ...

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Songs of dark experience, and innocence – Irish Times


Irish Times

Songs of dark experience, and innocence
Irish Times
There are poems in memory of Nuala O'Faolain, Dermot Bolger's wife Bernie, keeper of the Böll Cottage on Achill Island Michael Carr, and – above all – the philosopher John Moriarty. So Durcan doesn't see praise and death as incompatible?

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Achill singer launches album in US Jail – Mayo News


Achill singer launches album in US Jail
Mayo News
On Sunday, March 11, the Achill Island singer and his band performed to an audience of prisoners and guards in the prison canteen, playing hits from The Rolling stones, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, along with many songs from the ...

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For the love of farming and donkey work – Mayo News


For the love of farming and donkey work
Mayo News
Worse again would be the disastrous Gunnera (giant rhubarb) that is playing havoc up in Achill Island and other areas of North Mayo, by taking hold and smothering everything in its path. Cattle and sheep need to find food on the fields and there is no ...

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