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Michael GallagherThe Mayo News |
TO MANY of us, sport is the elixir of life. It plays a large role is our existence and it would be hard to imagine a world without the cut and...
‘NOTHING will sabotage our happiness more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough’. The words of renowned psychologist Bill Crawford...
Are we the Ireland of a thousand welcomes anymore? Is there the same grá for a stranger? In this modern world with its modern values is there a place...
THE Leaving Cert is almost upon us. That monolithic set of exams where rote learning is key to success. The antiquated system of selection, for the...
WHAT is love? What is hope? What sustains people when darkness falls across the Earth? Humans have been searching for those answers since the dawn of...
IN my view, the GAA is the greatest sporting organisation in the world. It’s in every corner of this island and can be found in hundreds of pockets...
IT’S the evening of August 19, 2018 and we’re inside arguably the happiest bus on the planet. The hurlers of Limerick have just defeated Galway in...
IT didn’t take long! We’re only in the first few weeks of January and already we’ve been hit with a negative take on what should be a positive...
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all...
The tricolour, our flag of emerald, orange and white, has always been central to my existence. It was presented to the family by our nation’s army...
As we amble along the craggy path of life, we meet a myriad of characters along the way. Most of the time we pass each other without notice and leave...
The cat picked its way stealthily through the leaves and across the glassy, wet pavement. It stretched athletically through the November morning as...
LIFE lessons mean that very few things annoy me anymore. What’s the point in wasting headspace when there is so much enjoyment to be found in other...
As I sit at my computer tapping out these words 129 lives have been lost on Irish roads in 2023, sadly by the time you read this that number will...