The year 1974 marked a transformative moment in Irish social history when Halal Meat Packers opened in Ballyhaunis (Béal Átha hAmhnais - pronounced "BALL-ee-HAWN-iss"), the "ford-mouth of strife," beginning an extraordinary demographic transformation that would make this medie…
Ballyhaunis is a small place in County Mayo. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.