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I have a sad task to perform this week, to remember and commemorate my good friend of more than forty years, the late (how it hurts to write those words) Ronnie O’Gorman whose death last week has robbed the world of an exceptional human being.

An event organised by The Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance that will see survivors/former residents of the home and other institutions discuss their experiences and share collaborative artwork, at a meeting in the Menlo Park Hotel on Thursday, June 8 from 10:45 am to 4:30 pm.

Athlone native and Bishop of Galway, Michael Duignan, has paid tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who will be laid to rest in Rome on Thursday last.

Bishop of Galway Michael Duignan has paid tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who will be laid to rest in Rome this morning.

The general upkeep and management of public graveyards in Mayo is so poor that people are having to ask local representatives to advise them where to place the bodies of loved ones within the burial plot while one graveyard near Westport is filling up so fast, people will soon end up having to be buried 'on the side of the road'.

Across the length and breadth of Ireland, there are elevated sites that have captured the imagination of people over many centuries. Tara, Slane, and Loughcrew are some better-known examples. Croagh Patrick was on everyone's mind recently with the memorable 'Climb with Charlie' event.

On Friday morning, 30th July, 1915 the body of a ‘well-dressed man’ washed ashore at Island Eddy. The island, which sits at the inner eastern end of Galway Bay had a population of 38 and a total of seven families recorded in the 1911 Census.

The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has received details of scientific analysis of ancient human remains which were discovered in 2016 by a local hillwalker on a Mayo mountainside. The discovery generated significant media interest, and research has now revealed that the natural boulder chamber in which the remains were found was used for human burial practice through the Neolithic period, from as early as 3600BC.