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As part of the development of the Blueway initiative, watersports activities will be provided for beginners and improvers, adults and children, at Old Head Beach on Sunday August 18 starting at noon and continuing until 5pm.

Connemara has always attracted visitors from across the world. Its landscape alone provides breathtaking inspiration to painters, poets, photographers, and writers. Beginners and professional artists alike love to capture the unique light and shade of the landscape, including the magnificent Twelve Bens, as well as the awe-inspiring coastline around Killary Harbour and Clifden. Adventure-seekers travel west each year to hike or climb through the picturesque, yet challenging, landscape, run the quiet, never-ending roads, venture into the sea to surf or dive, relax on the placid lakes and spend the day fishing, and everything in between.

Renowned as one of the country’s leading seafood festivals, the 2013 Connemara Mussel Festival will take place over the bank holiday weekend.

Mayo's Mweelrea mountain has been selected as one of 10 Irish mountain locations to feature in the 2013 Sunrise Summit Challenge, taking place on April 14. Hikers, adventurers and families of all levels of experience are invited to take part in the Irish Red Cross charity event in which they will hike through the early morning darkness, reaching the mountain summit in time to watch the sunrise over Connacht.

Picture yourself sipping hot port in front of a roaring fire as you gaze out over the calm shores of Lough Corrib, dining on the finest of local ingredients foraged by renowned chef Jonathan Keane, or relaxing in the outdoor hot tub.

Ballina lady Deirdre Ruane is organising a number of trips to Ethiopia in conjunction with third world development agency VITA.

Oughterard hosts one of the biggest cycle races in the west this Easter weekend when the seventh annual Ras Chonamara takes place.

A three-way walking challenge hosted by the Galway-based Lakedistrict hillwalking club will raise vital funding for the Mayo/Roscommon and Galway Hospice foundations, and offer a leisurely and healthy exercise opportunity for everybody in the great outdoors.

Gaelforce 6 is set to return for its fourth year of action, this August 22 and 23, with already some 2,350 athletes signed up.