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It’s double trouble for swimmers as Inis Oírr’s resident bottlenose dolphin, Sandy, seems to have taken up with a French bad boy by the name Clet with the two now controlling their surf and the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group urging caution.

The European Commission has approved funding for 248 new projects under the LIFE+ programme, the EU's environment fund — including a €2.6 million project by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to protect endangered habitats on the three Aran Islands.

NUALA KELLY is a nine-year-old living with her mother, brother, and grandfather in conflict torn Northern Ireland in 1979.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Juliet Turner and Geraldine Aron’s comic play My Brilliant Divorce can both be seen on Inis Oírr this weekend.

A workshop on dry stone walling will take place in Inis Oírr next month.

WHETHER IT be Robert Flaherty’s Man Of Aran or that legendary Guinness advert from the late 1970s, the Aran Islands have held a fascination for film-makers.

JM SYNGE is best known as a playwright but he was also a keen photographer and his photos are currently on exhibition in the Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oírr.

Picturesque Inis Oírr scooped one of the top awards at 2010 All-Island Pride of Place competition with The Latin Quarter in Galway city and Letterfrack also doing well by taking runner up awards.

Thirteen swimmers, triathletes and lifeguards are taking part in intensive training for a charity swim from the Aran Islands to Doolin in Co Clare.

Seamus Heaney described the Aran Islands as “three stepping stones out of Europe”; Inisheer is the smallest of the three Aran Islands in Co Galway. However Inisheer is closer to Co Clare and is an extension of the famous Burren with its rugged landscapes and beautiful flora.