Award Winning Local Singer Pete Kennedy To Return To Birr Stage
Award winning local singer Pete Kennedy will return to the stage at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre on Saturday 20 May. The Birr man will be supporting US native Josh Christina on his debut Irish Rockabilly Nights Tour across Ireland next month. He will perform a short set and will be followed by […]
St. Manchan’s Ladies Football – Annual 5k/10k Fun Run
St. Manchan’s Ladies Football host their annual 5k & 10k fun Run on Monday 1st May at 3pm in Tubber. Registration is from 12 noon in Tubber GAA Clubhouse. Entry fee is €10 or €20 per family! Participants of all ages and abilities are most welcome!
Ballyhoura Walking Festival
The Ballyhoura Walking Festival isn’t just Irelands oldest walking festival – It’s one of the most popular too. This May bank holiday weekend walkers from all over Ireland are expected to descend on Ballyhoura Country, covering an average distance of 20kms each. Now in its 24th year, the festival see’s guides from the Ballyhoura Bears […]
‘Atlantic’ Highlights European Ocean Citizenship in Irish Schools
As the shadow of Brexit looms, and the uncertainty around the future of our shared fishing grounds intensifies, the political implications for Ireland have come into sharp focus. Our relationship with the European Union at local, national and international level is being seriously questioned. Nowhere are the stakes higher or matters more divisive than with […]
Offaly Invited To Join Global Campaign Against Cancerous Ingredient
Irish campaign group Uplift is asking people in Mayo to join the global efforts to ban Glyphosate, a Roundup ingredient which the World Health Organisation has deemed ‘probably carcinogenic’. This has been followed by moves to ban it around Europe while the state of California has just declared it a known human carcinogen. The Irish […]
Lighthouse Festival To Shine A Light On Maritime Matters
A free fun filled festival set to shine a light on all things maritime will get underway at the world’s oldest intact working Lighthouse on the Hook Peninsula County Wexford this May bank holiday weekend. An action packed weekend of festivities will get underway from Saturday, April 29th from 11am. Join in the fun […]
Follow Ireland’s Juvenile Salmon Numbers Through New Online Tool
Inland Fisheries Ireland has launched the SMOLTRACK project in Ireland which gives the public the opportunity to follow the numbers of juvenile salmon making their journey down the River Erriff – the National Salmonid Index Catchment (NSIC). The project is running in five other locations in Europe and will help determine the survival of young […]
Three From Three Moffett Unbeaten In National Championships
On home ground, Sam Moffett yesterday kept his unbeaten record in this year’s Triton Showers National Rally Championship, with his Fiesta WRC leading the Co Monaghan MC’s Four Seasons Hotel event from start to finish, leaving him 27 seconds clear of former champion Donagh Kelly at the end. Moffett and his co-driver Karl Atkinson took […]
Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry: Contrasting Visions of Ireland
Dom Mark Patrick Hederman of Glenstal Abbey, was guest speaker at The Hunt Museum to announce details of an exciting exhibition taking place over the summer months: Jack B. Yeats and Paul Henry: Contrasting Visions of Ireland. This unique exhibition features two of Ireland’s most important 20th century artists side by side. Featuring rarely […]
