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Connect with your roots - Westmeath’s diaspora strategy 2017-2020 launched
Westmeath’s Diaspora Strategy 2017-2020 was officially launched by Cathaoirleach Cllr Frank McDermott in County Buildings last Thursday, May 29.
Jenn Grant to play Black Gate Cultural Centre
JENN GRANT, the acclaimed Candian singer-songwriter is touring her latest album, Paradise, and is coming to Galway next week to play The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.
Opportunity for two Mayo teachers to work in the North American Gaeltacht
Mayo County Council and Gaeltacht Thuaisceart an Oileáin Úir (The North American Gaeltacht) are giving an opportunity to two Gaeilgeoirí from or living in Mayo to work in Canada as a teacher for a week as part of a summer course from August 13 to 20, with their travel and accommodation provided.
Tá siad ag teacht — RV Celtic Explorer leaves Newfoundland and heads for Galway
An international team of scientists from six countries set sail last week on Ireland’s national research vessel, RV Celtic Explorer on a major trans-Atlantic voyage to study the impact of climate change on the ocean. Departing from St. John’s Newfoundland, and due to arrive in Galway on 23 May, the Galway-based Marine Institute-led team of experts are surveying a transect of the Atlantic Ocean last surveyed 20 years ago to investigate carbon dioxide levels in the ocean. The survey is essential to understand and project how carbon dioxide emissions are accumulated in the oceans and the atmosphere, as well as its effects on the acidification of the ocean.
Banff Mountain Film Festival - an adventure on screen
MIND-BLOWING journeys and hair-raising moments amid the last wild corners of the planet, undertaken by ordinary people with a taste for taking on mighty challenges with nature - it's the Banff Mountain Film Festival.
Rise up and shine - Elaine Feeney's 'multi-layred' take on poetry and life
EMPEROR DARTH Sidious ordered Lord Vadar to 'Rise...!' in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; WB Yeats threatened to "arise and go now, and go to Inishfree"; The Cardigans sang "Rise and shine my sister" - one word, yet each usage has very different connotations.
A man you don’t meet everyday
John Muldoon is no ordinary rugby player. He is a warrior, a Connacht warrior. Leading with his head, tackling with his heart and his soul, and loyal to the last - a one-club man. A rare breed.
Two Irishmen and the birth of Canada
THE GALWAYMAN, who assassinated the Louth man who was turning Canada from a series of provinces and into a nation, will be the subject of a new play at this year's Galway Theatre Festival.
