Swimmer Nicholas Quinn on qualifying for Rio, punishing training regimes, and supporting Newcastle United.

A number of people were taken by stretcher off the summit of Croagh Patrick yesterday suffering various stages of hypothermia.

Religious faith should act as a protest movement against consumerism, according to the Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Michael Neary.

A MOST unusual annual phenomenon occurs in the village of Lahardane, at the butt of Nephin along the shore of Lough Conn in Co Mayo: the bell at St Patrick’s church rings out across the silent countryside between 2am and 3am on April 15 in remembrance of those lost with the Titanic 500 miles west of Newfoundland at that time and on that date 95 years ago this spring.