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A holiday adventure turned into tragedy for a Galwayman who was forced to watch in horror as his wife fell 200ft to her death after slipping out of a parasailing harness.

The Manchester Irish Festival committee and the Minister of State for Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring, are among the recipients of the 2012 Irish Diaspora Mayo Awards.

Manchester's newly formed Manchester-Mayo Tourism and Business group have joined forces with tourism groups in and around Ballina to stage a special festival for the 2013 Gathering project called the 'Mayo-North Gathering'. The proposed festival was launched in Attymass at the Father Peyton Centre yesterday (Thursday). It will be part of the Manchester-Mayo Gathering which will have festival hubs in Ballina and Attymass, but it is hoped that other parishes and surrounding towns will get involved in the initiative which hopes to boost tourism all over the north Mayo area.

Success has its costs and for the Mayo County Board, success in the Connacht Junior Football Championship came with the cost of having to send a Mayo team across the Irish sea for the third time this year. The Mayo hurlers had two adventures in London in the league and the Christy Ring Cup, and this weekend it is the turn of the junior footballers who are heading to Manchester to take on Lancashire in the All Ireland semi-final tomorrow at 2.30pm in Old Bedians, Manchester.

Since its earliest days, one of the defining characteristics of the Galway Arts Festival is the way it has forged strong friendships with its featured performers and invited them back for repeat visits.

ON A first reading of James Martyn Joyce’s first collection of short stories, What’s Not Said, published by Arlen House, you could be forgiven for thinking it is the work of yet another ‘angry young man’, reacting in disgust and horror to a cynical and hypocritical world where everything is brushed under the proverbial carpet and what is not said is better than saying anything at all.

MANCHESTER-IRISH fiddle player Mike McGoldrick will be in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Monday from 9pm.

LARS IYER is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also the author of the novel Spurious, a raucous debut that summons up the fabled Goon Show comedies.

Ballina town councillor Johnny O’Malley this week proposed a motion calling for the Minister for Communications to cap the wage structure at the national broadcaster to €200,000. In outlining the reasons for his motion, Cllr O’Malley told the other members: “I think €200,000 is enough, if it’s good enough for the Taoiseach, it should be for them.” He had previously explained that when RTE closed its Raidio na Gaeltachta studio in Mayo earlier this year, because of a lack of funds, the “obscene” wages that some in RTE earn came to his mind.

Do you fancy spending a week living in Seattle, Washington? A TV production company is looking for a Galway family to do just that as part of a new reality series which sees residents from twinned towns swap lives for a week.