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Éamon Ó Cuív, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, visited Belmullet on Friday last to launch the three-day Island Culture and Arts Programme.

When Paddy Courtney takes to the stage of The Comedy Club at Cuba* this Sunday he will be closing a major chapter of Galway comedy and paving the way for the opening of a new one.

Love is in the air this autumn as Galway-based TV production company Abú Media begin production on a new 13-part dating series to be broadcast on TG4 in January 2009.

Auditions for Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe’s pantomine event of the year, Yummy Mummy will take place tomorrow and Wednesday in An Taibhdhearc.

Bonniconlon Parish Centre is among six businesses who are to receive funding from the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs for electricity conversion/installation.

Conradh na Gaeilge will host a six week Irish course for Junior Certificate students to help them improve their Irish.

Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Michael Ring has officially opened the new C&C Cellular shop in Belmullet. They are the Vodafone accredited agent for Mayo.

It was a twofold mission — to do the best you could for yourself and to do the best you could for the folks at home. Margaret Craven was talking about emigration from Ireland the way it used to be in the 1960s. She knows. She left her native Letterard in Connemara as a teenager. She was then Margaret Connolly and, like thousands of others of her generation, the bells of emigration were tolling for her early in her life. She was speaking in Portland in the state of Maine in America last week. She is now a state representative for the Democrats in the state parliament in Maine; next week she will almost certainly be a state senator. She has an election next Tuesday and the bells are tolling for her Republican opponent. But last Monday it was the bells in the Church of St Dominick in Portland that tolled and told the story of the Irish in the state of Maine. And it brought together many elements of the Irish diaspora.

The next Westport Civic Trust talk will examine place-name history in the county, ranging from rare pre-Gaelic survivals to parish and townland names and to the more recent so-called minor names which survive especially in coastal Gaeltacht and island communities.

Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, the national institution for third-level education through Irish at NUI Galway has appointed Susan Folan as co-ordinator of the new MA Ateangaireacht Chomhdhála/Conference Interpreting programme, commencing at the end of September.