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There were 31 detections for the sale and supply of drugs in Mayo last year, according to Sergeant Jim Cadden of the Garda Drugs Unit. Sgt Cadden addressed a meeting of the joint policing committee on Monday where he outlined the increases in detections being made in Mayo for a range of drug offences.

Kilkenny’s annual Celtic Festival is kicking off this weekend with a programme that is enticing Celts from all over the world for more reasons than one.

Just arrived at Galway’s leading designer bridal shop are some stunning gowns from the 2010 collection from Novia D’Art and Fara Sposa of Barcelona. Brides will be spoiled for choice with this incredible collection. Sisters Maria and Therese Raich are the inspired designers behind the brand. They use the most delicate of fabrics, especially silks and laces. Last year one of Spain’s princesses wore a wedding gown made from Guipure lace. This is an intricate and delicate lace favoured by the Spanish royalty. Two of the gowns from the Novia D’Art collection feature this beautiful lace.

DESPITE IT’S somewhat dramatic opening, “On 18 August 1588 a barque of Southampton was fishing about 36 miles southeast of Sumburgh Head, Shetland, when the crew sighted the Spanish Armada approaching from over the horizon to the south,” The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland by Ken Douglas, published by Gill & Macmillan, begins where the romance and the glory of that most colourful of invasions ended and the inevitably tragic and sordid debacle began.

Two of the best known newlyweds in literature arrived in town to launch this year’s RoolaBoola children’s arts festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre last Friday evening. No strangers to launching things, the Owl and the Pussycat docked their beautiful pea-green boat in Castlebar after a monumental journey back from the land where the Bong-tree grows, stopping off in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Spain and Achill — we know, we’ve seen the postcards they’ve been sending to the Linenhall over the past weeks.

Do you remember the great egg scandal in Glenroe? Dinny (Joe Lynch) was caught selling ordinary shop-bought eggs as free range.

The town of Castlebar was plunged into sadness at the news of the death of local businessman Cathal Duffy of Rathbawn Road who died at Mayo General Hospital following a short illness.

THE AWARD winning violinist Arve Tellefsen has declared Mari and Håkon Samuelsen to be “among the greatest string music talents in Norway”, and next week the duo will give a concert in Galway.

Balla Golf Club

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