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The weather may not be festival-friendly, but that’s not going to stop the music going ahead! There are still plenty of major music events in the Midlands and beyond before summer officially ends - including the much-loved Castlepalooza music and arts festival.

Local lad Cian Morrin, who is part of Louis Walsh’s newest chart-topping band Hometown, will be back in Castlebar on Sunday night (April 5) when they play the Royal Theatre Castlebar as part of their nationwide tour. Cian, from Rhinshina in Breaffy, first came to attention when he appeared on The X Factor in 2012 when he was a secondary school student in St Gerald’s College in Castlebar where he made it through a number of rounds. Cian had gone on to start studying to become a national school teacher before the call came for him to become one-sixth of Hometown last year.

Mary Byrne, the Tesco supermarket checkout woman who shot to fame on the X Factor is to play an intimate concert in the Ruby Room at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Saturday, December 27, at 8 pm.

Mario Rosenstock’s Gift Grub Live 3 tour, which will hit the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Saturday October 4, is selling fast as Mayo audiences are taking advantage of one last chance to catch the live tour, which has already enjoyed a 19 date, sell-out, run in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.

Paddy is confused. He's known something has been wrong for the last while, but he just cannot put his finger on it. He wakes up in the morning and there it is, the bright shining light in the sky since 6 am. And he groans cos now it's getting him down. He feels like going to the window in his striped pyjamas and string vest and shouting out at the land outside a la Sarah Miles in White Mischief – Oh no, not another effin' beautiful day.' Cos like Miles , he is now begging for it to end. Or cool down at least. Or make up its bloody mind.

Mary Byrne, the Tesco supermarket checkout woman who shot to fame on the X Factor is to play an intimate concert in the Ruby Room at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, next weekend.

Mario Rosenstock has added a Castlebar date to his Gift Grub Live 3 national tour.

Following the success of Belmullet’s Malachy Gaughan in getting picked by The Voice of Ireland judge Jamelia on last Sunday night’s TV show, two more Mayo singers are hoping to make the cut this Sunday night.

John Walkin, the angling enthusiast who is credited with helping Ballina achieve its 'Salmon Capital of Ireland' title, has been named Mayo Person of the Year 2014.

Liam Geddes, 21 and a native of Ballina, is one of the favourites to win the new TV show, The Voice of Ireland.