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Galway is fielding two riders in this year's An Post Rás, Ireland's biggest international cycle race which is under way this week.

Mayo Genealogy Group

THE BANFF Mountain Film Festival, a feast of documentaries from the global mountain and sports community, celebrating a love of the outdoors and the spirit of adventure, returns to Galway.

One of Ireland's elite Paralympic athletes has teamed up with the road safety office of Mayo County Council to produce an awareness video (https://youtu.be/ANHDtfuKCy4) to highlight the importance of giving cyclists a safe distance when overtaking with a minimum distance of 1.5m. Members of the general public were interviewed on what distance a driver should give when overtaking a cyclist, with some surprising results. The clips provides the feeling for cyclists as vehicles whizz by at speed just inches away from them.

French-Canadian group Le Vent du Nord will perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, on May 9.

ATLANTIC, A part Galway made documentary, following fishing communities in Ireland, Canada, and Norway as they struggle to sustain their livelihoods against oil exploration, fishing quotas, and industrial trawling, will be screened at The Eye.

French-Canadian group Le Vent du Nord will perform at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, on May 9.

Among the many exciting writers heading to Galway for this year’s Cúirt is award-winning Canadian author Miriam Toews whose latest novel, All My Puny Sorrows, has garnered rave reviews and figured prominently in many ‘books of the year’ lists.

Joan Freeman, Founder of suicide and self-harm crisis centre Pieta House, will launch Darkness Into Light 2016 (DIL 2016) in association with Electric Ireland in The Ballina Manor Hotel, Mayo, this evening, Monday, April 4 at 7pm.

Thousands of people turned out in bright sunshine in Athenry Town Park on Easter Monday to remember the events of 1916.