The names of many people who played major roles in securing a better standard of living for the people of Mayo in difficult times are often forgotten with the passage of time.
Such a man was William Price, a native of Manulla, Castlebar, who was a personal friend of Michael Davitt, Straide, and P.W. Nally, Balla, after whom a stand in Croke Park is named.
In the late 1890s and early 1900s, William Price played a heroic role in highlighting the cause of the small farmers of Mayo. It was Price and other brave Mayo men who raised the banner high when all seemed lost.

Michael Moran, who came from near Castlebar, obviously had a keen eye for the birds, the feathered kind I hasten to add. Close on a century ago he claimed to have come across a spotted blackbird on an island at Lough Lannagh.
There are a number of islands on the lake, including Boyds Island, Cock Island and Gillespies Island.

We live in violent times, when death and destruction are an everyday occurrence. A recent newspaper report highlighted the fact that assassins can now be hired to carry out a killing for $1,000.
In the past there was a lot of violence in Ireland, though murder and maiming were not as prevalent.