Gemma and her friend Chistine taking a break while cycling the picturesque Sky Road, Clifden A view of the beautiful bog landscape at Derrigimlagh Bog standard. I've no idea who invented the term, but ...

Hilary A White joins the Connemara Mountain Walking Festival for some breathtaking early summer hiking Walking in Connemara. Failte Ireland Can’t be right. Can it? Carrauntoohil, sticking up through ...

If you stand at the top of Diamond Hill in Connemara National Park, you can see all the way to the sea; the silvery curves of Ballynakill Harbour, the pointy peak of Tully Mountain, the long, low ...

Three quarters of the way up County Mayo's Mweelrea, the highest peak in west Ireland, the unthinkable happens: I lose my sole. The rubber tread of my hiking boot had started to come apart earlier in ...

AN BORD Pleanála has refused planning permission for a major wind farm in Connemara, consisting of 27 turbines, on the basis that it would “erode the visual and environmental amenity of this area” of ...

The acclaimed Connemara-based author, artist and cartographer Tim Robinson has died in London from coronavirus at the age of 85. Mr Robinson, who was best known for his nonfiction trilogy of books on ...

An Bord Pleanála has refused planning permission for a large windfarm in east Connemara, overturning an earlier decision by Galway County Council. The development at Lettermuckoo, Muckanaghkillew ...

This is the final work in Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, and completes his breathtakingly intricate journey through the Irish peninsula. "Every tale entails the tale of its own making," he remarks ...