Mayan folk beliefs mingled with Leonora Carrington’s inherited Celtic ones in a heady concoction

Location in the Liberties ‘approved as part of a wider community regeneration project intended to provide a permanent market and community space’

The event brought strangers together as few things do at the city’s numerous vantage points

Closure was provided 41 years later when a driver from the Westmeath town got me to a screen showing the All-Ireland final

This dramatic change in the landscape around Dublin had somehow passed me by

Plus a suspicious detail about a banshee’s ominous cries

Extraordinary sound – ‘neither voice nor instrument’ – heralded baron’s death in 1801

The Coolin, Spancil Hill, the Parting Glass, and Raglan Road among the many traditional tunes performed

Preparing to climb the old-fashioned way, I am reminded that the modern Reek Sunday is nothing like it was 25 or 30 years ago

Mayo’s 1952 All-Ireland win was followed by quiet years, rain and the county’s closest neighbours rubbing salt in the wound

After hitchhiking back from Craogh Patrick, the celebrations in Westport led to an unexpected ending for the weekend

Hollywood movies were reimagined and book deals invented before the All-Ireland champions returned to Mayo with a very special guest

Reek Sunday 2026: Mayo climb mountain in Croke Park as thousands of the county’s faithful ascend Croagh Patrick

The late Paddy McNally spent some of his childhood in Ireland, romanced Sarah Ferguson and had brothers who did unspeakable things to cats

The issue is the dried-in grime, accumulated from two months of leaks and spillages, and from the primordial ooze that gathers around the base of bins