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A 57-year-old Mayo man, Paul Cawley, has just won the 2014 prize for the biggest and best looking pair of cabbages in the annual Levenshulme Allotments Produce Show. The giant cabbages were planted on St Patrick’s Day and grew to an enormous 50 inches in circumference.

With plans for the Mayo north Gathering festival progressing well, organisers are asking local people to avail of a novel way of inviting their overseas friends and relations to the festival which will run from August 1 to 9, 2013. A distinctive Mayo north Christmas card, featuring a picture of a snow covered Nephin and Lough Conn, is now on sale at various outlets throughout the region as well as from the Tourist Office in Pearse Street, Ballina.

Up to eight households in the Derrymartin area of Castlebar still have no connection to running water despite “all that needs doing is the opening of a valve” according to Fianna Fáil councillor Blackie Gavin. The Castlebar based councillor has raised the issue of the plight of the people in Derrymartin on a number of occasions at different council meetings. At this week’s Water Supply and Sewerage SPC of Mayo County Council, Cllr Gavin called for the committee to “write out to whoever is in charge of the Nephin Valley Group Water Scheme and get them to turn on the water supply to the Derrymartin scheme, there are seven or eight houses there who have gone long enough without water.”

The elected members of the Castlebar Electoral Area Committee have directed Mayo County Council to stop all funding to Nephin Valley group water scheme. The decision came after the Nephin Valley scheme sought a €900 contribution per house from another scheme, the Derrymartin Group Water Scheme, to which it has been connected. The new Derrymartin scheme had been installed and laid by Mayo County Council and all connections made, but the water has not been turned on by the Nephin Valley side who wanted a €900 per house contribution for the scheme.

A ranger led hike through the Nephin Beg mountain range will take place on Saturday July 28. Accompanying the wildlife ranger will be two education guides from the Ballycroy National Park Visitor Centre.

Let the Gaeltacht come to you this summer. It may be 'the Galltacht' (predominantly English speaking area) but set at the foot of Nephin, overlooking Lough Conn, Coláiste Deirbhle is a great place to improve your native mother tongue.

Let the Gaeltacht come to you this summer at Coláiste Deirbhle. This Irish language college, set at the foot of Nephin overlooking Lough Conn, is a great place to improve your mother tongue. Qualified and experienced Irish teachers, having grown up in the Gaeltacht and taught for many years in Gaeltacht summer collages, are offering a one week preparatory course for Higher and Ordinary Level Leaving Cert Irish, bearing in mind that the Irish oral for the new Leaving Cert Irish syllabus is now worth a massive 40 per cent.

Barry Murphy of Tourism Pure Walking Holidays in Castlebar is leading a climb on March 19 of Nephin Mór.

The Nephin View Restoration group is having an Irish Harvest Day and threshing display, in aid of Guide Dogs for the Blind, in Leonard’s field, Lahardane, on Sunday October 3 starting at 3pm.

Arthritis Ireland is encouraging people from Mayo to Pick a Peak to climb on July 24 next to help bridge the services gap for young people with arthritis. More than 50 teams from all over Ireland are expected to pick a peak in their own area to climb at the same time to raise money for this life changing charity.