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A 24-year-old man who pretended to collect money for a charity walk — when in fact he was collecting the money so he could buy alcohol — was before Ballina District Court this week for a “mean type of crime”, making gain and causing loss by deception.

All Ireland Poetry Day this year takes place on October 6 and Mayo County Council Arts Office and Library Service have announced that on the day Mayo poets will have the opportunity to take part in poetry snack workshops at Castlebar Library.

All Ireland Poetry Day this year takes place on October 6 and Mayo County Council Arts Office and Library Service have announced that on the day Mayo poets will have the opportunity to take part in Poetry Snack workshops at Castlebar Library on the day.

On Friday September 23 arts venues throughout the country throw open their doors for an evening of public participation in the arts. At the Ballina Arts Centre they have an array of events for the public to try out. Be it music, dance, film or printmaking, there is something for everyone.

Ballina is about to become home to Ireland’s newest world class cultural institution. Work is well under way on the refurbishment of the Thomas Manly Deane designed Provincial Bank on the town’s main street. Next year the stunning listed building will become the permanent base for Mayo County Council’s Jackie Clarke Collection, which will be one of Ireland’s top tourist attractions. It is not surprising then that Ballina will be a focal point for Culture Night 2011, tonight September 23.

Culture Night takes place in the county on September 23 as 25 cultural hotspots will be sharing and showcasing a wide variety of events.

Rugby pundit and children’s author Brent Pope will visit Ballina Library, Bord Gáis Energy READISCOVER Your Local Library campaign, which this year takes place for the month of March.

On March 2 in Castlebar Library at 8pm there will be a talk by Richard Kirwan entitled If Maps Could Speak, which is an engaging combination of memoir, history, and stories about people and places

On September 24 a total of 20 towns, cities, and counties across Ireland took part in Culture Night. In Mayo the evening was a countywide event giving people in all parts of the county the opportunity to go along to their local venue and check the wealth of activity that goes on there. Not surprisingly, people did just that. In the past five years Culture Night has become a national phenomenon and in 2009 Mayo was delighted to be part of the event. In a unique take on events the occasion in Mayo became a countywide event, a first for culture night. Feedback from venues and audience was extremely positive.

A photographic exhibition of the Irish Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) is currently running in the public library in Pearse Street, Ballina. The wide range of photographs depicts the early years of MSC missionaries in Ireland, and their departure to Papua New Guinea, to South Africa, to Venezuela, and more recently to Russia.