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With the date set and the wheels now officially in motion, the crew behind the Helium Micro Music Festival in Ballymahon are delighted to be able to officially announce the headline acts for this year’s festival, with full details on the confirmed acts to be announced at the event launch this Saturday night, March 31 in Skelly’s Bar, Main Street, Ballymahon. Free entertainment on the night will be provided courtesy of festival favourites Arrow in the Sky and the launch will provide a chance for local supporters of the charity event to buy their festival tickets direct on the night!

GAA supporters from across Athlone and the extended areas of south Westmeath and south Roscommon will meet in Longford tomorrow as neighbouring clubs Garrycastle and St Brigid’s finally meet at the much anticipated All-Ireland club senior football championship semi-final.

It’s a question that has been asked a thousand times: When are you all going to get together and start a big band?

Having picked up three ladies’ All Ireland senior club titles inside the past decade Carnacon are back in the final on Sunday and looking to turn that triple of championships into a quadruple. The girls in green and red have made their way back to the final this year and after narrowly losing out to Inch Rovers from Cork in last year’s showpiece, they will have extra motivation to make this All Ireland number four for the central Mayo club. Standing in their way in Ballymahon in two days’ time will be Dublin and Leinster champions, Na Fianna. The Dublin ladies saw off the challenge of Munster and Cork champions Donoughmore by four points at the start of the month.

Jukebox Gypsy have just announced a very special pre-Christmas tour to support the release of their brand new live album - Live at the Bog Lane Theatre, recorded last June at the beautiful theatre right here in Ballymahon.

The folks behind Helium 2011 are delighted to announce that the Ballymahon micro-music charity festival has beaten off some very stiff competition to win the inaugural award for the Best Social Media Campaign for a festival or event in Ireland.

Athlone Little Theatre have scored a major triumph in their 75th anniversary year, as Ollie Hegarty’s production of Two, by Jim Cartwright, has just reached the all-Ireland One Act Drama finals. The finals will take place in Ennis in early December, and Two is being hotly tipped for further major awards.

Three music veterans, Jim Rooney, Arty McGlynn, and Mick Daly, will join forces for an evening of country, bluegrass, and traditional music not to be missed at the Bog Lane Theatre, Ballymahon, Co Longford, on Sunday November 6 at 8pm.

Two of the brightest stars of the 2011 Helium Fundraiser Festival line-up make a welcome return to the Ballymahon area this Hallowe’en bank holiday weekend, when the Rustic Inn in Abbeyshrule plays host to headliners Ham Sandwich and Ballymahon’s own up-and-coming band Breaking Circles.

Tonight in Ballina’s number one live venue, Brennan’s Lane, Recoil will rock the stage from 8pm. Recoil are a five piece band hailing from Ballymahon, Longford, and are quickly establishing themselves as one of the best up and coming bands to hit the venues. Playing all over the country, from Letterkenny to Kilkenny, the lads never disappoint. With a top of the range sound system and light show Recoil make sure every gig is to the highest standard.