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Minister for Social Protection, Éamon Ó Cuív TD officially opened Halla Tuar Mhic Éadaigh in Tuar Mhic Éadaigh last week.

Pat Carey TD, Minister at the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, has announced funding of over €39,000 for a further 24 community and voluntary groups under the new Seniors Alert Scheme. In Mayo groups to receive funding are Fahy Community Alert Group, €279.90; Louisburgh Lecanvey Community Alert, €547.00; SVDP St Colman’s Conference, €2,458.00.

Reports that Leader funding is to be recalled from local development programmes and allocated elsewhere are completely without foundation, according to Beverley Flynn, TD.

MICK FLANNERY will play Kelly’s on Thursday October 14 and the show will be broadcast live on Raidió na Gaeltachta’s An Caifé Ceoil.

The board of Údarás na Gaeltachta has expressed concern this week about the future of the authority, and also that of the Department of Community, Equality, and Gaeltacht Affairs, following revelations of a substantial funding drop in next year’s budget. Gaeltacht areas in Mayo supported by the authority are located in north Mayo, Achill, and Tourmakeady.

On the 1820 map of Galway, the site of the Taibhdhearc was part of the then Augustinian Church. When the present church was built in the 1850s the site became derelict. The late Ned Joyce remembered a large tree growing on the site, a tree which stretched across the street to a tenement known as ‘The Windings’. The occupants used to hang their washing on the tree on fine days.

An bhfuil tú ag iarraidh cur le do chumas Gaeilge? Ar mhaith leat cur le do stór focail, nó muinín níos mó a bheith agat agus tú ag plé cúrsaí an tsaoil i nGaeilge? Nó b’fhéidir go bhfuil tú ag iarraidh cáilíocht fhoirmiúil, ar nós Teastas Eorpach na Gaeilge, a bhaint amach?

Are you a young person over the age of 12 who would like to meet up with other young people to socialise through Irish? Ceol 's Comhrá is a new group of young people who are interested in creating a space for Irish to be spoken in an informal, friendly, and relaxing atmosphere.

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, possibly Ireland’s greatest sports commentator, will be the subject of a special interview on Raidió na Gaeltachta, to be broadcast next month.

An Taibhdhearc are holding auditions for their next production, Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn, the Irish language version of Jimmy Murphy’s The Kings of Kilburn Highroad which has been translated by Mícheál Ó Conghaile and will be directed by the talented Lara Campbell. Auditions will take place in Galway on Monday next, August 23.