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Rural enterprises nationwide are being encouraged to showcase their goods and services, boost their revenue and create jobs in their local communities by supporting an upcoming international festival which will have a captive audience of 15,000 at Ireland’s biggest ever sheep and wool event.

Easter Customs Tour

Kilkenny County Council Arts Office and the current artist in residence Deirdre Harte, textile artist, would like to invite enthusiastic and keen knitters to collaborate on an exciting visual arts project during her eight week residency here in the Arts Office space, no. 76 John Street.

New autumn and winter knitting patterns and wool now have just arrived at Castlebar’s new knitting shop, Nel, on Ellison Street.

A Kilkenny woman was last week’s winner of the ‘Innocent Big Knit’ campaign in aid of Age Action Ireland.

Age Action is urging Mayo people to cast on their county colours for a great cause. The Big Knit campaign aims to get 80,000 little woolly hats knitted by the public between now and early September.

Age Action needs 80,000 little hats knitted between now and September and is calling on the people of Mayo to “Cast on in their county colours”. According to a spokesperson for the charity it only takes 20 minutes to knit a little hat (less if you can already knit!) and Age Action is keen to see which county is passionate enough to knit the most hats in its county colours.

A man who tried to push past a garda to get involved in a brawl outside a nightclub was before Castlebar District Court this week.

This coming bank holiday weekend, on June 5 and 6, the Clik All-Ireland and International Sheep Shearing Championships will be held in Portlaoise Rugby Club, with over 20,000 people expected to attend.

Drop along to a knitting circle on Friday April 16 from 11am to 1pm in the Museum of Country Life, Turlough.