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| Name | BALLINA, County Mayo, good enough for PRESIDENTS Joe Biden, Mary Robinson and big Jack Charlton. |
| Video Uploader | Video From Naked Ireland |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 02-05-2024 10:00:07 |
| Video Discription | Ballina, a town in the north of county Mayo, is situated on the mighty river Moy, which is particularly high as we film, to the amount of rain that’s fallen recently. The Moy leads out to Killala Bay, the estuary of the river, and on into the Atlantic Ocean. Looking at this river, it’s probably not surprising that salmon fishing is an important thing here. In fact there’s a salmon fishing festival in July of each year. So if you’re an angler, now you know when to visit. It’s funny but I remember visiting Ballina way back in the early 1990s and one of my recollections was buying a massive whole salmon here and taking it back to Sligo, where we were staying, and cutting it into stakes. A lot of work goes into these videos. You can now buy me a pint as a means of appreciation for my work on Naked Ireland, no obligation, obviously - only if you can afford it... I appreciate it. Cheers. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nakedireland The town has a population of over 10,500 people, which might seem strange as it seems particularly quiet tonight. It’s a Thursday night. It has the quaint charm of other west of Ireland towns, though I don’t think any of the picturesque beauty of the likes of Westport. But that’s understandable – while this is certainly a tourist destination, it wouldn’t compare with towns like Sligo or Westport in terms of being a tourist attraction. But, many of these less developed towns (for want of a better term) are great places for tourists to see the real west of Ireland, away from the glamour of the tourist trail. It’s a town, like many towns in the west that suffered very badly during the Great Famine. People in Ballina’s rural surroundings depended heavily on the potato in the mid 19th Century. In 1846 when the potato blight struck, it was a disaster. Starvation was rife and Ballina hosted a workhouse which served whole northwestern coast of County Mayo. You can imagine, I’m sure, that these workhouses were not the kind of place that you’d enter except as a last resort, but things were so bad here that huge amounts of starving peasants requested admission. By 1847 almost 90 people were dying of fever a week. Perhaps if you’re watching from England, Canada or the US, your ancestors may well have left here in desperation at that time, searching for a new life for themselves. And of course the irony is now we have people from other parts of the world arriving here, for exactly the same reason. And then I came across Dillon’s Historic Courtyard. And what a charming place this is, and there were a couple of nice looking restaurants here too, one of which I had dinner in. It was the usual very generous plate, of, in this case, very nice seafood linguine. So, Ballina caters well for visitors and I really recommend this town if you’re visiting the west. We see an area that is destined to become the new Ballina Innovation Quarter. It’s the old historic Market Square Barracks and this place has massive potential to transform the town. Now Ballina has had a few very distinguished residents, namely former Irish President Mary Robinson and the late Rep of Ireland football manager Jack Charlton (who practically had the status of an Irish President at one point). …and of course the great great grandfather of the 46th President of the United States. And of course Joe Biden visited the town of Ballina twice most recently in 2023. So Ballina – the home of Presidents of one sort or another! |
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