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The Newman Institute Ireland - Masters degrees and short courses offered by Ballina-based Christian college and Centre for the Family and Marriage. Provides details of courses, staff and locality, plus inquiry form.
Atlantek Computer Products - Computer hardwear and software for sale from Ballina based retailer. Includes secure purchase facility.
Ballina Chamber of Commerce - Provides profile of Ballina town, its industrial facilities, the tourism industry, and reports on the work of the Chamber.
Food Innovation Centre - Details of services offered and contact information.Ballina based.
Toons and Balloons - Provides bouncy castles, inflatables, costumes and fairground rides for parties and events. Company profile, product previews and contact details. Based Ballina.
Compleat Salmon Holidays - Guided salmon angling service for visiting anglers to the Moy Valley fishing region of Ballina in County Mayo.
A Ballina Man's Odyssey - Information on a book by Ballina author Kevin Cowley.
Bogwood Ireland - Details of a group of Ballina women who craft sculptures from ancient bogwood.
Liam Jones - Landscape Artist - Profile of this Ballina-born artist with galleries of his Irish landscape paintings.
Sycamore View, Ballina - Bed and breakfast and rental accommodation, with details of the property and local activities.
Kingfisher Lodge, Ballina - Accommodation details with photos, rates and angling fees, along with map and contact details.
Whitestream House - Details of accommodation, facilities and local attractions.
Red River Lodge, Ballina - Details and images of accommodation, with entertainment notes and contact data.
Downhill Hotel and Eagles Leisure Club, Ballina - Accommodation, conference and leisure facility notes, with rates, local attractions and details of a self-catering apartment.
Downhill Inn Hotel - Details of facilities at this 3 Star hotel, with information on special offers, location, and activities available.
St. Mary's Secondary School, Ballina - History, location, activities, news, principal's profile and contact details.
Enniscoe Country Estate - Georgian manor house and estate on banks of Lough Conn. Details of bed and breakfast or self-catering accommodation, heritage centre, historic gardens, conference facilities and local golf and fishing.
Philip McComiskey Auctioneering - Provides details of the company and its services, plus a searchable database of properties available in north Mayo.
Claddagh House B&B - Details of accommodation, location, rates, local visitor attractions and leisure activities.
Murphy Brothers - Details of facilities available at this riverside restaurant, bar and night-club, including sample menus.
Yew Tree Theatre Company - Details of current and former productions from this professional theatre company, plus information on the Mayo Youth Theatre project and other outreach activities.
Seans Irish Adventure - Photographs of Ballina and surrounding area on this personal site recording a visit to the area.
Crockets on the Quay - Historic quayside hostelry offers information on its bars, restaurant, bed and breakfast accommodation and local attractions.
Belleek Castle - Details of accommodation, facilities and amenities at this stately home by the River Moy.
Casey Ltd - Search online for all makes of new and used cars from this Volvo dealer. Also special promotions and details of aftersales service.
Moy Valley Tourism - Details of self-catering accommodation and golf facilities in the Moy Valley, between Ballina and Enniscrone.
Mountain View - Photo and details of self-catering accommodation, amenities and contacts.
West of Ireland Angling - Profile, notes on fishing and particular locations, local accommodation and amenities, with photos, rates and contact information.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Ballina Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Ballina Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. 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Ballina "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Ballina Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Ballina I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Ballina Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Ballina A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Ballina "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. -- Vladimir Nabokov The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Ballina Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley Ballina "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. -- G. K. Chesterton Ballina "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Ballina I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. -- Wilfred Sheed We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ballina There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ballina These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Ballina Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Ballina I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Ballina To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Ballina Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspe The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Ballina The important thing is not to stop questioning. 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