From being crowned the Rose of Tralee to winning RTÉ’s Dancing with the Stars contest, trainee electrician Katelyn Cummins has had a year that she will never forget. She shares her story with Ireland’s Own readers as she prepares to pass on...
SWEET CHILD OF MINE GUNS N’ ROSES This was the first real album I bought. I was twelve, worked for about two weeks, saved 20 pounds, and bought this album. It was 1989, and I played it non-stop for years. This song has stayed with me for so long. I...
From Songs of the Fields by Francis Ledwidge She’ll come at dusky first of day, White over yellow harvest’s song. Upon her dewy rainbow way She shall be beautiful and strong. The lidless eye of noon shall spray Tan on her ankles in the hay,...
WHEN I WAS younger, I was aware that certain of my peers were smarter than me. I didn’t mind it too much because I was fine with the circumstances of my own life. But the awareness made me sometimes envious, wishing I had that man’s talent on...
■ 2nd AUGUST 1926: violinist and orchestral leader, Hugh Maguire (1926 – 2013), was born on this date. Dubliner Maguire was immersed in music from a young age and achieved the remarkable feat of receiving every Feis Ceoil prize for the violin by...
ONE OF the poems I liked best at school was John Masefield’s Sea Fever: ‘I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by.’ The poem was in my head when we went for a visit to...
Dear Editor, County Mayo played host in May to an International Writers Conference dedicated to George Augustus Moore, the 19th Century novelist who was born at nearby Moore Hall. Moore’s prolific output of books made him famous in his...
Dear Editor, The annual CLAN Mc CABE RALLY will be held under the auspices of the Clan Mc Cabe Society, on Sunday 16th August, 2026, in the Slieve Russell Hotel, in Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan, starting at 3pm. This year’s guest presentation...