News that Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin has been nominated for nine Oscars was met with howls of delight at an Oscars party at McLoughlin’s Bar on Achill Sound. The success of the film, ...

A new collective of local and international musicians who have been drawn to the Mayo island are about to release their first album. They want to show there’s more to Achill than Banshees and beaches ...

THE FIRST vehicles are expected to be rolling across a new bridge to Achill Island in coming days. The €5 million swing bridge at Achill Sound replaces the old structure called after Michael Davitt, ...

Achill brims with mysterious stories, and its windswept, Oscar-worthy landscapes are well worth exploring Amanda Hyde is a London-based travel writer who had over a decade's experience in travel ...