Johnj Deacy News Today

℘℘℘ The words were painted high on a whitewashed brick wall, just above a red and green Mayo flag flapping in the wind.  MELLETT’S DRINKING EMPORIUM  ESTB 1797 “Is it true?” I ask my friend, a lifelong Swinford resident. “Mellett’s has been in business since 1797?” “Nearly as old as the town itself,” he tells me as I push the pub door open. “And the same family has owned it the whole time.”   I’ve been visiting Swinford – and Mellett’s – for more than two d...