Aiming to get back on track

CHARLESTOWN in East Mayo is quiet but alive some 35 years after journalist John Healy wrote about its death.

Aiming to get back on track

Healy's best-selling book, "Death of an Irish Town" highlighted how a lack of State investment in the west desolated small towns leaving only corpses.

"I couldn't go down the town for six months after that was written. My friend I was best man at his wedding didn't speak to me for eight years. I was never able to let my mother see that book either," Healy's brother Gerry remembers.

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