The first thing that strikes you about Illauneeragh is the ruined pier.

Gardaí have arrested a 49-year old Co Mayo man concerning the alleged daytime rape of a 75-year-old woman in Ennis last Thursday.

Helen O’Callaghan looks at Eco Rangers, a Bord na Móna programme that aims to reconnect kids with the great outdoors.

As The Naughton Foundation Scholarship celebrates its 10th year, we catch up with past winners to see what they’re doing now, writes Ciara McDonnell. 

Batman v Superman was “very satanistic”, while animated children’s film Trolls featured “genocidal cannibalism with [a] sub-context of substance addiction”.

The McAleese inquiry into Magdalene laundries was informed in 2012 about “disturbing” infant death rates in excess of 50% at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.

More than 120 volunteers converged on the tiny village of Aughleam near Blacksod Bay in Co Mayo yesterday to assist in the search for the crew members of the ill-fated helicopter R116.

A woman, who was a recluse, allowed no one into her home and had died several weeks before she was found, an inquest heard.

A reclusive woman who let nobody into her home died several weeks before she was found, an inquest heard.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

With summer almost upon us, it’s a great time to get out and about. This weekend sees the annual Afri famine walk take place in Co. Mayo, an experience that is always uplifting and memorable, writes Rob Fairmichael.

PEL Waste Reduction Equipment in Co Mayo is aiming to crack the US market with its innovative Baby Jaws glass bottle crusher.

A great man once described art as “not what you see, but what you make others see”. In other words, art requires an audience to interpret it.

Contrary to the article that appeared( Irish Examiner, November 18) I wish to confirm there is no three month backlog to book an NCT appointment.

SCIENCE is where it’s all at for former Rose of Tralee Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin. 

Members of a syndicate of work colleagues from Co Mayo have picked up a cheque for almost €4m from the National Lottery.

As war rages between Israel and Hamas and the number of children killed in Palestine continues to rise, a group of Irish and British volunteers have arrived in the conflict-ridden country and are about to undertake an unusual but inspiring project that aims to enhance the lives of young people who call Palestine home.

A 28-year-old woman who died after tumbling down her stairs while wearing new flip-flops has given the gift of life to five people.

A Kerry student beat almost 10,000 entrants in a fantasy writing competition with his story about a tense chase through an airship.

The trial of a Co Mayo man accused of murdering his mother heard today that she suffered multiple stab wounds.

Farmers are to be consulted as part of a plan to create a 23km walkway/cycleway on a former railway line in West Cork.

THE sublime terrain of Erris, Co Mayo, has informed the paintings of Hughie O’Donoghue for three decades. ‘Gort Rua’, the exhibition of his paintings at the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin, is a testament to the relationship.

Chris Froome’s performance in the Tour de France seems superhuman.

US actor Patrick Cronin returns to his Cork roots for an iconic role, says Colette Sheridan

A Co Mayo man who had one of the largest collections of child pornography ever found by gardaí has been jailed for eight years.

A Co Mayo man with one of the largest collections of child pornography ever found by gardaí has had his sentencing adjourned because a psychological report is not ready.

A court has today postponed sentencing of a Co Mayo man who had one of the largest collections of child pornography ever found by gardaí to allow more time for him to be psychologically evaluated.

A judge has said an “unacceptable” three-year delay by the Garda computer crime unit in analysing child porn found on a Co Mayo man’s laptop in 2009 was a mitigating factor in his decision to impose a suspended sentence.

Gardaí are taking more than three years to process some prosecutions for child pornography, it has emerged.

They look lovely and last so long — well looked after dairy show cows come up shining year after year, with top winners from 2010 taking the red rosettes again last Sunday at Tullamore Show.

It is tragic to hear of a housing estate in Tullow, Co Carlow, which took millions if not billions of working class Irish savings and pensions, all held in banks in credit union bonds, deposit, and savings accounts, being sold for €150,000, the price of a small house in the country.

Funding to good causes by the National Lottery hit a five-year low in 2011 as a result of the economic downturn, forcing consumers to spend less money on Lotto tickets and scratch cards.

A GHOST-LIKE character shuffles slowly, almost anonymously, into a sparsely furnished room on the top floor of Dublin’s Cabinteely House.

One lucky punter could be set to see their financial troubles disappear this evening — if they can break an apparent Lotto jinx and win the €9.5m rollover jackpot.

X-FACTOR judge and boyband manager Louis Walsh has strongly denied allegations that he indecently assaulted a young man at a popular Dublin nightclub.

IT IS an horrific day for humanity when the president of the “free world”, along with his trusted advisors, is happy to be filmed watching a real-time “snuff movie”.

Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has tonight apologised on behalf of several officers who admitted joking about raping two women protesters in their custody.

ABOUT 750 recipients of rural social scheme income support are being reminded to make a declaration of means — or the Department of Social Protection will not be able to renew their contracts.

The country's new coalition government is to be sworn in today with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny officially elected Taoiseach.