Search Results for 'Connacht'

A new tourism marketing website aimed to heighten awareness of the Erris region in Ireland and on the Continent was launched last Monday by Minister of State Michael Ring at the Gateway Leisureplex in Belmullet.

A Castlebar woman is one of five radio fans who have taken up the challenge of living in one bed with four others for seven days, all to win €5,000 worth of prizes. Claire Burke from Castlebar is taking part in i102-104’s 5 In A Bed at Galway Shopping Centre where they have been living in a shop window for the last week.

Here we are again still is a wonderful new play written by Druid favourite Christian O’Reilly and it comes to Roscommon for one performance only on Thursday May 26 at 8pm.

THE GALWAY BAROQUE SINGERS’ summer concert takes place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday May 28 at 8pm.

TODAY, TOMORROW, Saturday, and Sunday, the narrow streets of Galway city centre’s mediaeval past will come alive with mediaeval music for the 16th annual Galway Early Music Festival.

ALÂ, THE community theatre and education organisation, will present a new variety theatre show Good Bye Harry in the Menlo Park Hotel on Saturday May 21 and Sunday 22.

Druid Theatre Company will make its first visit to Inis Meáin in more than six years, when it stages, appropriately, Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan on the island.

Fifth class pupils at Claddagh NS are issuing an appeal to find competitors for their Olympic handball team. According to the children, very few schools are involved in this sport which is described as a cross between basketball and soccer, and they are urging new schools to become involved and, if necessary, they are welcome to practice with Claddagh NS in their court.

The Galway Bike Festival 2011, as part of National Bike Week was launched in Eyre Square, Galway last week by Transport Minister Leo Varadkar. Now in its third year, the Galway Bike Festival promotes cycling for everyone, aims to increase the number of cyclists in Galway and supports a dynamic cycling culture in the city and county.

A recent fundraiser for Galway Rape Crisis Centre raised almost €5,000 for the organisation. The money generated by its flag day will help the centre to continue providing counselling and support services to survivors of sexual violence and abuse in the west of Ireland.