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KATHY FARRELL

After this publication's recent Wild Atlantic way supplement, resisting the opportunity to explore our own corner of this amazing country was impossible. So, with that in mind, I journeyed across Galway to Delphi Lodge, located on the banks of Finlough, near Leenane.

The second livestream property auction of the year for O’Donnellan & Joyce is happening on Friday April 12 at 12 noon. It promises to be an excellent auction with something special for everyone.

In early October 1884 a journalist from The New York Times, whom we only know by his initials HF, left Galway for Cong by steamer, in the company of Mr TP O'Connor, MP for Galway, and Mr Healy, MP for Monaghan.

Children’s cancer charity, Cancer Fund for Children has recruited a Connacht-based regional fundraiser to join their team.

The elected members of Mayo County Council have given their support to the local authority to enter into agreement with Galway County Council for the design, planning and delivery of a relief road in Cong.

‘Westward Ho! Let us rise with the sun, and be off to the land of the west - to the lakes and streams - the grassy glens and fern-clad gorges - the bluff hills and rugged mountains - now cloud-capped, then revealed in azure, or bronzed by evening’s tints, as the light of day sinks into the bold swell of the Atlantic….’

The Cross of Cong, one of Ireland’s great ecclesiastical treasures, was reputedly made at Cloncraff monastary, Co Roscommon. Its unsurpassed craftsmanship was inspired by its relic, a splinter of the wood of the cross on which Christ was crucified.

Sunday, April 24, marks the start of the ‘London 2 Mayo’ Vintage Tractor Run fundraiser in aid of Crumlin Children’s Hospital and for Cancer Fund for Children's (CFFC) plans for a new therapeutic short break centre, Daisy Lodge, in Cong, County Mayo.

BY Declan Varley