This is what an Irish traffic jam looks like. Life looks and feels a little better when you're stuck in some traffic but the other vehicles on the road say Baaaaa instead of Beep! This video of a ...

News that Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin has been nominated for nine Oscars was met with howls of delight at an Oscars party at McLoughlin’s Bar on Achill Sound. The success of the film, ...

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has rejected suggestions that the housing crisis has prompted protests about providing accommodation to people in direct provision. The Archbishop of Tuam ...

McLoughlin’s Bar, a fourth-generation family pub established in 1870 on Achill Island, faces an uncertain future as Josie McLoughlin, with no direct family to inherit the business, seeks a new ...

Residents on Achill Island, Co Mayo have insisted they are not opposed to having asylum seekers living in their community but are opposed to lack of consultation from the Department of Justice and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An Atlantic island has become a Hollywood star. Unassuming Achill, off County Mayo, Ireland, is the backdrop ...

Two sailors are recovering after their yacht got into difficulties and washed ashore on Achill Island. It is thought that the 50 foot vessel encountered problems in stormy seas off the west coast ...

This photo shows the reappeared sand on the beach in Dooagh, Ireland, on the island of Achill. Sand mysteriously appeared last month after the beach was washed away in the 1980s. Sean Molloy/Achill ...

Kildownet Church. Photo: Getty Images Mountain walks are just one reason to visit our biggest island. Add five Blue Flag beaches, a deserted village and a cosy micropub, says Pól Ó Conghaile.