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Last Friday a 60-strong international bike ride arrived in Erris to a warm welcome from local campaigners at the Bellanaboy Shell refinery site. The cyclists have ridden 500 miles from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales to Erris. The cyclists joined with local campaigners at the refinery gate and then travelled en masse to the Rossport Solidarity Camp where some 200 people are meeting for the 2010 summer gathering.

A new four-part documentary series which has captured the stories of five people living between Barna and Carna is to be aired on TG4 this weekend.

A call for more resources and personnel to combat the importation of drugs has come from Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins.

Gael Force 2008, the largest multi-discipline adventure event in the country will take place in Westport this month on August 23 and 24 and is open to all levels of competitor.

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The Irish National Photographic Awards exhibition returned to Galway city last month and will be there until next Monday August 11.

The famous Connemara Golf Links at Ballyconneely will feature in a special television documentary for American viewers.

The European Commission is urging lobster fishermen along the west coast of Ireland whose livelihoods are under threat because of a drop in prices to set up a producers’ organisation in order to strengthen their position in the market.

This Saturday night Finbar Hoban Presents… Jennifer Evans & The Ripe will support The Zen Yetis along with The Rye at Bar Ritz (Mulroy’s Bar), Castlebar. Jennifer is a self taught musician and singer songwriter from Wicklow. Traces of Irish folk music can be heard throughout her music with influences ranging from Buffy Sainte, Pentangle, Maria Callas, The Doors, and Jimi Hendrix. Most recently Jennifer recorded a version of Dusty Springfield’s “Going Back” for the ESB’s new advertising commercial on RTE. television. Jennifer will be supporting local Claremorris and Castlebar group The Zen Yetis, playing original songs with their influences ranging from Joy Division and Kings of Leon and they are a group not to be missed. The headlining act of the night will be The Rye from the west coast of Ireland. They present one of the freshest sounds in Irish music today, they play in their own words “savage driven ceoil”. Their weekly appearances at The Cellar bar in Galway were praised as one of the most exciting residencies in Galway… “as if the ship manned by The Pogues has been taken over by an equally unhinged crew”.

Last Saturday night January 31 Bar Ritz was the place to be if you were looking for great night of entertainment, Jennifer Evans from Dublin kicked off the show playing tracks from her forthcoming album which included ‘Tomaselli Has a Friend’, ‘Scattered’, and the ever lovely ‘Dominique’s Curl’. Jennifer plans to have her new record out by spring of this year and it is definitely a record to keep an eye out for in the near future. For more information on Jennifer please check out www.myspace.com/jenevansvia.