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What is this Wild Atlantic Way you speak of? Are you ready for the journey of a lifetime that will take you along the snaking route of one of the most westerly parts of Europe, where the ocean kisses Ireland; that bitter bowl of tears that brought so many people from this island right across the world for centuries.

The Athlone to Renmore section of the Dublin-Galway cycleway has been split into two separate projects in a fresh attempt to deliver the long-delayed route.

The ad men for the sponsors of the All Ireland Minor Championships came up in recent years with the tag line 'This is Major' for their advertising campaign - to emphasise how important the minor championship is for its young stars. Well, for each of the teams battling to become Mayo GAA Intermediate champions, there is no tougher competition to call in Mayo football than the intermediate championship, with at least a dozen, if not all 16 sides, having their eyes set on taking the big prize.

The lighthouse known as the Tower of Lloyd was commissioned in 1791 by Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, in memory of his father. Henry Aaron Baker designed it. The 'lighthouse' is located on the Commons of Lloyd near Kells in County Meath, some 40km from the coast, and as such is redundant as a lighthouse. It was, however, used in the nineteenth century by the aristocracy for viewing the local hunt. The Tower of Lloyd is, in fact, an eighteenth-century folly.

While Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was in Mayo yesterday to perform the official opening of the new N5 Turlough-Westport route, Fáilte Ireland was also on the ground in Mayo this week, as it hosted two special workshops in Westport and Mulranny, aimed at developing a network of local experts working on the frontline in tourism and hospitality.

Good things come to those who wait, the saying goes. For Ballyhaunis the wait is now over, at the third time of asking in recent years they have managed to win the Mayo Intermediate Football title.

Good things come to those who wait, the saying goes. For Ballyhaunis the wait is now over, at the third time of asking in recent years they have managed to win the Mayo Intermediate Football title.

As the evenings close in, and our spare time is limited to the standard weekend, with maybe an extra day thrown in if we are lucky, I always prefer to look for a short break in a destination that can be reached in little more than an hour.

As the evenings close in, and our spare time is limited to the standard weekend, with maybe an extra day thrown in if we are lucky, I always prefer to look for a short break in a destination that can be reached in little more than an hour.