Bed and Breakfast, Belmullet, Drom Caoin

07/11/2022

Mayo Volunteer Centre with Mayo North East in Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet

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21/10/2022

Another added to Carne Golf Links

11/09/2022

10/09/2022

A great photo of Mayo fan Máirín UíMhurchú and her daughter Sinéad heading to Garth last night!

09/09/2022

Friday night priorities at Garth Brooks at Croke Park with my daughter McLaughlin. Gerry is on the breakfast tomorrow 💚❤️🤠

14/07/2022

McDONNELLS Pub, BELMULLET, Co Mayo: a winter walk, a fire and a glass of powers . . .
It takes only three songs from the solo musician in McDonnells in Belmullet before the dancing starts. First one couple, then another, and suddenly not stepping up and jiving with the locals makes the tourists stand out from the crowd.

And what a crowd. Laughing and talking, people keep flowing through the door. How they all fit is the magic of this place that’s known locally as the “lobster pot” – once you’re in there’s no getting out. It’s a wonderfully historic and welcoming pub that is the perfect place to finish a wild, rugged Mayo walk.

We’ve just followed the Cross Loop Walk on the Mullet Peninsula. It’s a stunning route starting on the beach at the dramatic Cross Abbey and its graveyard that stands so powerfully in the face of the Atlantic.

Out to sea is Inishglora, an island famed as the final destination of the Children of Lir at the end of their 900-year banishment. The landscape here is charged with meaning and your imagination pulls stories from the wind as each turn offers views more dramatic than the last.

We’ve been told that after our walk there’ll be a great fire burning in O’Donnells back in Belmullet and they weren’t wrong. But the real fire was in the conversations with the staff and locals. Conversation comes easy to people here and customers took turns to talk me through the history of McDonnells, a family pub since 1942 when Michael and Elizabeth McDonnell bought the premises.

Run now by Michael’s grandson Pádraig Conroy and his wife Marian, there is a deep sense of place within its walls. This is a pub that matters to Belmullet and a true flavour of Mayo. The people here are passionate about the wild landscape they inhabit and the tradition they have inherited. It’s a wonderful place to get back to the land.