Mayo

We are all Pricewatch now: stories of inexplicably expensive butter and the good life overseas – and a restaurateur’s plea for empathy

Irish Museum of Modern Art in talks with arts department over proposal to locate gallery in old garda barracks in Ballina, Co Mayo

Locals express support for welcoming refugees but concern at failure to provide accommodation other than hotels

King Charles II paid the debt for the crown jewels worn last week by giving 95,000 acres to the royal goldsmith back in 1661

One price, home and away: Wooden houses in Quebec and Ulesund, a renovated farmhouse in Touraine, a waterside apartment in Aci Castello and an old hunting lodge in Newport

New to the Market: From a two-bed apartment in Dún Laoghaire to a three-bed bungalow in west Cork

Enda Kilcullen succeeds Kevin Ahern as chief executive of EU hub TD Global Finance

Philip O’Keefe, Irish citizen who fought with Cafferkey against Islamic State in Syria, arrested by UK counterterrorism police on way to Ireland

Real benefits might take at least 18 months as US tourists like to plan their holidays far in advance

Advocate calls for county council to be be given more power to help

He had an innate ability to understand people and respond appropriately to their grief, pain or joy

Finbar Cafferkey (40s) was military volunteer with previous combat experience in Syria

President would be 86 by the end of his second term, but Irish tour showed him ‘flying around the place’, cousins say

Garda Representative Association to use annual conference to raise concerns over Gsoc investigator’s alleged links to Hutch family and party

Television: On Ireland’s Wild Islands, Eoin Warner is on a soulful quest to discover the spirit of Ireland itself

Communities of Castlerea and Charlestown say the sentencing of Stephen Silver brings some sense of closure, but some ‘scars’ remain

Motorbike mechanic to serve a minimum of 40 years for killing of Gda Colm Horkan

Mustapha Aboubi’s Castlebar cafe has over time become an informal hub for immigrants, offering a home away from home

‘I haven’t one potato sowed yet,’ says Wexford farmer Seán Ryan. ‘We’d normally have them all planted by St Patrick’s Day’

The band’s songwriter Leo Moran was on the N17 when the presidential seal of approval came

‘It will anchor Ballina in the minds of Ireland and the States forever more, Amen … Absolutely! We are very proud!’

Joe Biden is a throwback politically. Future links between Ireland and US leadership will need to be cultivated, not simply found

US president delivers final address in Ballina at the end of four-day visit to Northern Ireland and the Republic

US president brought to tears as he meets retired army chaplain Fr Frank O’Grady

US president was accompanied by former taoiseach Enda Kenny as he visited North Mayo Heritage Centre near Crossmolina

US president views plaque at Castlebar facility which commemorates his late son Beau

Air Force One landed an hour later into Ireland West Airport on Friday afternoon

As the US president heads for his other ancestral home, most in Ballina have a connection or a story

Friday sees president complete his four-day trip with exploration of western heritage

Knock Shrine closed to the public from 1pm on Thursday

Large number of locations US President Biden to visit over four days set to test Garda, PSNI and US security services amid concerns over war in Ukraine

US president set to visit Belfast, Dublin, Louth and Mayo on his four-day trip to Ireland

Hermione Duffy’s husband, Mark, and crew died when their helicopter collided with Blackrock Island of Mayo coast in 2017

The story begins in 1848, when Biden’s great-great-grandfather Patrick Blewitt crossed the Atlantic as a 20-year-old cabin boy

Events in Belfast, Dundalk, Carlingford, Dublin and Ballina are either already confirmed or being scoped out

Priest says Easter drama celebrates ‘that universal quest for meaning beyond the material things’

Locals in Co Mayo and Co Louth areas with links to US president are making preparations

Gerardine Cusack, born in Westport in 1919, has always been ‘cheeky and optimistic about the world’, her children say

The president is also likely to address a joint sitting of the Houses of the Dáil and Seanad on Thursday, April 13th, according to sources in the Oireachtas

The ascension of a Catholic Irish-American to princess paved the way for the Irish to be accepted as American ‘royalty’