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The new Grace O'Malley statue in Newport, Co Mayo has been unveiled less than a year after the town's statue honoring Irish American Grace Kelly.

This article by Evan Andrews appeared in the History Channel's website. See link to the original article below. When they weren’t trawling the high seas in search of plunder, history’s most fearsome buccaneers often dropped anchor in safe ports of call around the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and the coasts of Africa. Most of these…

Some of the most infamous pirate tales that fascinate us were set in ports that served as a hub for the black market and as secret strongholds.

A quick perusal of the Forbes ‘World’s Most Powerful Women’ list for 2017, will reveal female politicians, heads of industry and billionaire philanthopists at the top of the list.

As the evenings close in, and our spare time is limited to the standard weekend, with maybe an extra day thrown in if we are lucky, I always prefer to look for a short break in a destination that can be reached in little more than an hour.