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Galway’s strategy of developing a nearly all-year-round programme of events and festivals has been credited with establishing the city and surrounding county as a “happening place”, that is according to a new report launched this week by the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC).

Westport Civic Trust will host a talk entitled Victory or Glorious Defeat: biographies of participants in the Mayo Rebellion of 1798, on December 7 at 8pm at the Atlantic Coast, Westport.

It wasn’t all plain sailing for Galway’s beaches and bathing areas this week as the high of achieving six Blue Flag Awards was dampened by the loss of two.

For an action packed break with a difference, set in stunning scenery and located not too far away, take a break to the northwest, where located on the shores of Sligo Bay and below the shade of Ben Bulben, the Radisson Blu Hotel and Spa, Sligo, is the perfect base to repose in luxury before encountering fun, tailor made, activities for you and your family — which are all organised through www.activitynorthwest.com.

The Ocean Energy Development Unit (OEDU) of Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) has deployed a weather buoy off the coast of north Mayo to monitor wave and weather conditions. The buoy, which is 10km off Annagh Head on the Atlantic coast of the Mullet Peninsula, was launched last week and will transmit information collected via satellite link to the OEDU at the civic offices in Belmullet. This information is the first of its kind available in Ireland and will facilitate the development of a full scale wave energy test site off the coast of north Mayo. 

To celebrate the arrival of the Volvo Ocean Race in Galway a free public talk entitled “The Making of Galway Bay” will be held on Monday May 25 at 6pm in the Cairnes Lecture Theatre, NUI Galway.

WAVERIDERS, THE acclaimed film which tells the history of surfing, its revival by an Irish-American, and which profiles major surfers, is out on DVD tomorrow.