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What better way to brighten up your garden this summer than with a a trip to the newly opened Bláithín Garden Centre?

Fáilte Ireland has welcomed Communications Minister, Pat Rabbitte’s announcement of a new Rural Broadband Scheme aimed at providing universal broadband access throughout Ireland by the end of 2012.

Local Heroes is a new and exciting endeavour to bring local talent back to the forefront, giving a stage to musicians in order for them to showcase their talents.

The popular gardening show Super Garden, co-sponsored by Woodie’s DIY and Growise from Bord na Móna, is returning to RTÉ this May and is seeking the last entries for amateur gardeners and garden makeover candidates for the series. All applications must be in by February 13.

The search to find Ireland’s top young artists of 2011 is under way as brochures for the 57th Texaco Children’s Art Competition are arriving at primary and second-level schools throughout the county.

Enable Ireland and Childline have joined forces to operate the Santa’s Grotto in the Continental Christmas Market in Eyre Square between Friday November 19 and December 19 and are appealing for local businesses to give support by making a donation.

Despite widespread concerns from local people the new water eco-park mooted for the Midlands will not affect water levels of the Shannon. Speaking to the Advertiser Gerry Geoghan of RPS, a consultant firm to Dublin City Council, said that the water supply is not only for the people of Dublin, but also for those in the Shannon area.

The first Organic Community Garden in Castlebar is up and running and donations of gardening tools, plants, etc, are being sought from individuals or businesses in the Castlebar area.

Sustainability, local food, and ‘grow your own’, are central themes to this year’s Bloom festival, which will take place in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, over the June Bank Holiday weekend.

One of the most delightful consequences of the great ash plume exploding over Iceland, and the subsequent cancellation of air transport, has been the temporary clearance of the skies. Looking up, during the day and at night, we can experience something unknown to most people since the invention of the airplane – the heavens as they were seen before man began to colonise them.