A man with a sombrero in a Mexican photo studio might not look like having much to do with the Irish-language revival but the image recalls a key moment in its early days.

Every now and then there’s a moment, a milestone which can indicate the end of an era. For me a recent experience in a West Cork village was just that.

Irish Water has submitted a series of planning applications to Galway County Council in a bid to ease chronic water shortages on two of the Aran Islands.

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The Government has re-advertised the tender for the €3.6m subsidised air services to the Aran Islands, Co Galway that it cancelled in controversial circumstances last October.

The Government has been accused of ignoring the concerns and wishes of Aran Islands residents by withdrawing the air service contract for the islands from Aer Arann.

Residents of the Aran Islands, shocked at the loss to Aer Árann of an air service contract for the three islands, plan to fight the Government decision.

The managing director of knitwear firm that counts Barney’s in New York among its clients yesterday cautiously welcomed the extension of State-subsidised air services to the Aran Islands.

Water chiefs are facing calls to tap into a massive hidden network of underground rivers off the west coast in a bid to solve worsening droughts on the Aran Islands.

Drink, feck! Not a chance of a drop of it on Craggy Island.

A massive logistical operation was under way off the west coast yesterday to deliver water to two island communities.

Emergency water supplies are due to be taken to the Aran Islands today.

Lismore, Co Waterford

A remote island knitwear firm that counts Barney’s and Bergdorf Goodman in New York among its clients last year had a substantial increase in profits.

WE all know Christmas is a time for catching up with friends and family, even those spending the festive period abroad.

A young Cork businessman is fighting for his life in hospital after an early morning assault and robbery in the US.

First it was Killarney — now horse nappies are about to be introduced to the Aran Islands as the local council seeks to get jarvies to clean up their act.

Axing the air service to the Aran Islands will threaten jobs and businesses and force people to leave, locals warned yesterday.

Any plans to remove funding for the 42-year-old air service to the Aran Islands could spark an irreversible decline in the population of the islands, it has been claimed.

This job can be perpetually terrifying. I’ve had opening nights where I haven’t wanted to step out.

Some years ago, as part of a recognition of the needs of small island primary schools which do not have an option to amalgamate with other schools nearby, the minimum school enrolment was reduced to eight pupils.

One-man show I Am Martin Sharry explores family life on Inis Oírr,says Richard Fitzpatrick

These three wind turbines were erected 10 years ago by the then Inis Meáin co-op as a means of developing sustainable energy on the Aran island.

THE murder of an Irishman in Boston last week should be the catalyst for having the plight of the undocumented in the United States finally addressed, according to a former mayor of Galway.

AN IRISHMAN shot dead near his adopted home in the US was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”, officials believe.

An Irish man shot dead near his adopted home in the US was “in the wrong place at the wrong time”, officials believe.

A man from the Aran Islands who was shot dead in Boston has been named locally.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese and her husband, Senator Martin McAleese, were special guests yesterday afternoon at Druid’s performance of Martin McDonagh’s play The Cripple of Inishmaan on Inis Meáin, Co Galway.

BRIGHT orange electric cars will soon be part of the Aran Islands’ landscape.

OVER half a million people last night attended galleries, museums and cultural spaces around the country for Ireland’s biggest ever Culture Night.

We ate this delicious Cáca Risíní when we visited Áine and Tarlack de Blacam’s house on Inis Meáin.

I’M SITTING with my back to a stone wall on Inis Meáin — on Ireland’s western seaboard — watching islander Padraic McDonagh hand threshing rye in the time honoured way.

Water supplies have been restored to the Aran Island of Inis Meain.

PEOPLE on the island of Inis Meáin had their water switched off for almost a full day after the escalation of a pay row which has already frozen flights to and from the island.

MEDITERRANEAN weather and glassy seas along the western seaboard made a mockery of the reason hundreds of islanders had to cast their ballots yesterday.

THE pilot of an aircraft that crashed, killing himself and a passenger, was stressed and uncomfortable about the weather while carrying out the demonstration flight for a group of businessmen, an investigation has found.

The pilot of an aircraft that crashed, killing himself and a passenger, was stressed carrying out the demonstration flight for a group of businessmen, an investigation found today.

Houses on Inis Bofin have been saved from falling into the sea in a multi-million euro project, it was claimed today.

Offshore islands could be entirely powered by wind and wave energy in the future, it was claimed today.

A revolutionary new harbour costing €14m has been completed on one of the Aran Islands.

Island-hopping between Ireland’s offshore isles will be exempt from the Government’s controversial new air travel tax, it emerged today.