Nestwatch 2013 - Blue Tits We've got a pair of Blue Tits in our first nest of the year located at Derek's house in Dublin. The nest is almost complete and the female has now laid two eggs! Click here to watch Nestwatch 2013 - Swallows We're watching a pair of Swallows building a nest in a shed behind Áras an Uachtaráin. Click here to watch
Three players attempt to beat the clock, and each other, to win a two-night weekend break for two people sharing one room in the 4-star Mount Falcon Country House Hotel on the banks of the River Moy in Ballina, County Mayo. If you win, the prize includes breakfast on both mornings and dinner on an evening of your choice in the hotel’s Kitchen restaurant. While there you might like to visit the hotel’s leisure centre with its 17 metre swimming pool with a view of the woods – or pay a trip to The Elemis Spa. Runners-up will get a ...
Gertrude O’Reilly McHale, a history fan and a friend of Jackie Clarke introduced this piece on the impressive collection of this important Mayo man. Jackie Clarke amassed more than 100,000 items spanning 400 years during his lifetime Many are of huge historical significance including artefacts associated with the likes of Wolfe Tone and Michael Collins as well as maps, posters, books, cartoons- all from various different periods and personal items from the leaders of the 1916 rising It’s perhaps the most important collection of Irish historic material and it’s gone on public display in Ballina Co Mayo To learn more about ...