It is hard to imagine that a remote, windswept part of Co Mayo was the setting for an event 75 years ago that changed the course of history.

We, the parents of Scoil Bhreandáin, Eachléim, Blacksod, Co. Mayo, write in relation to the withdrawal of a concessionary post from our school on Aug 31.

THEY were called ‘the Mayos’ on the farms around Youghal, Co Cork, in the 1950s.

Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Garda Michael Padden at Shanaghy Church on the Mullet peninsula in Belmullet, Co Mayo.