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Kilgeever parish, (Louisburgh and Killeen) is planning a weekend of celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of St Patrick’s Church, Louisburgh, this weekend, September 7 to 9.

As part of his World Tour of Mayo, Tommy Tiernan performs live at Lisloughrey Lodge Hotel, in Cong, Co Mayo, on Sunday August 12. Tommy is delighted to be back in Mayo. It’s Tiernan country too, with relatives all over, from Cong to Kilmaine and to Louisburgh, the roots go deep here. Tommy comes from a long line of Mayo teachers, farmers and priests. One of his forebears set up the first school in the county and for that Tommy would like to apologise. He's always felt especially at home here and considers it homecoming of the ancestral sort.

Buffalo Country with the wide open skies, Tommy is delighted to be back in the county of Mayo. It is Tiernan country too, with relatives all over, from Cong to Kilmaine and to Louisburgh, the roots go deep here. Tommy comes from a long line of Mayo teachers, farmers, and priests. One of his forebears set up the first school in the county and for that Tommy would like to apologise. He has always felt especially at home here and considers it a homecoming of the ancestral sort.

Bathing waters in the county achieved ‘good’ status in The Environmental Protection Agency’s Quality of Bathing Water in Ireland report.

The festival, which takes place from Friday May 4 to Monday May 7 in Louisburgh, includes classes in ballad and sean-nós singing; musical instruments; a set-dance workshop, Céilí, sean-nós singing recital, concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and non stop sessions in the town.

The 52-year-old victim of a single vehicle traffic accident which occurred at Kilsallagh on January 2 was laid to rest on Thursday.

New business opportunities for Mayo were explored in London recently when a group of eight delegates from Westport, Louisburgh, Mulranny, and Castlebar, representing local tourism businesses and linked together by the Greenway, attended the World Travel Market in London recently as part of a fact-finding, marketing, training expedition.

An innovative community-based initiative will be launched on Friday November 11 in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park. The Community Archive Network launch will showcase the work of communities from Ballinrobe, Louisburgh/Killeen in Mayo and Oughterard, Co Galway.

Louisburgh Ironman Eamonn Keane is the subject of a special insightful documentary called Éamonn Ó Cathain – An Fear Iarainn on TG4 this coming week. The programme, which will be broadcast in the Cogar series next Sunday evening at 9.30pm, follows the Mayo native as he attempts to bring home the Grand Slam of ‘Weight Lifting Guinness World Records’ to his native parish.

The Louisburgh St Vincent De Paul Society is currently looking to recruit new members to the society in order to help with the existing and expanding workload.