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Much of my travel is concerned with the past and those who inhabit it. So it was when I boarded O'Malley's Ferry for the short trip from Roonagh Pier to Clare Island for the first Storm Watching Weekend of the season hosted by Clare Island Lighthouse.

Comharchumann Forbartha Ionad Deirbhile has taken the next step in their preparations to open Blacksod Lighthouse to the public. This week Irish Lights and Mayo County Council signed a lease with Comharchumann Forbartha Ionad Deirbhile to take over this historic building and open it to the public for guided tours.

ROBERT PATTINSON is Ephraim Winslow, a new lighthouse keeper starting his first day of work on the coast of New England in the late 1880s. He is partnered with Thomas, played by Willem Defoe, a veteran wickie, as he calls himself.

Clare Island Lighthouse has been named Europe’s Best Coastal Boutique Hotel at the World Boutique Hotel Awards.

Clare Island's historic lighthouse has been included in a new European funded tourism initiative launched on Wednesday.

For the first time in 30 years, the Mutton Island lighthouse will shine a light onto Galway Bay, as electricity is installed in the iconic structure.

Mutton Island lighthouse is a unique facility which should be open year round as a heritage attraction, that’s the view of Labour councillor Derek Nolan who has put the proposal on the agenda for next month’s City Development Plan meeting.

The fourteenth year of the Féile Iorrais International Folk Arts Festival was, as usual, a great success.