Warmer weekend ahead but showery conditions to persist
Met Éireann predicts further changeable weather until middle of next week
Land yourself a Connemara cottage on Alcock and Brown bog for €545,000
The extended property has four bedrooms, and is on 12 acres of bog near the site where the transatlantic pilots crashlanded in 1919
Alcock and Brown: Those magnificent men who landed their flying machine in a Galway bog
This month marks 100 years since Alcock and Brown flew nonstop across the Atlantic
From Canada to Clifden: The aviators who trumped Lindbergh
The feats of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown will be celebrated in June 2019
What’s your county’s claim to fame?
A cure for leprosy? The Connemarathon? The home of Botox, or Viagra? Birthplace of the MGM lion? Whatever its claim to fame, know your county’s bragging rights
TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann
Inspired in part by Alcock and Brown’s pioneering transatlantic flight, the Irish author’s new novel is his finest since ‘This Side of Brightness’
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