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Roscommon town’s annual Easter parade looks all set to be a spectacular affair this Sunday. A huge effort has been put in over the past few weeks and the committee reports that there are some very colourful and inventive floats this year which will make for a very entertaining day for all those attending.

This summer enjoy all the fun of the fair at a new event at Belvedere House, Gardens and Park, The Belvedere Family Carnival.

Local community groups and businesses in Moate are being encouraged to come out and support the town’s Easter parade, which takes place on Easter Sunday April 8.

Moycullen will hold its first St Patrick’s Day parade this year and some 40 floats are expected to take part on Saturday March 17.

Galway city needs a park for street artists to work in and practice their art, but on no account should the graffitiing of private property be tolerated.

Threshold, the national housing charity, was founded in 1978 and is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to secure a right to housing, particularly for households experiencing the problems of poverty and exclusion. Its main concentration of work is within the rented sector.

Graffiti can be an art form but it can also be plain vandalism, and where it is art it should be encouraged and where it is vandalism it should not be tolerated.

On Sunday next from 9.30pm Callan’s Abhainn Rí Festival 2011 will present The Green Street Carnival of Bright Ideas to celebrate the final night of the Abhainn Rí Festival.

The seventh son of the seventh son, Danny Gallagher from Maghera, County Derry, according to ancient Celtic lore, possesses the power to heal people by simply touching them.

A Garda presence is needed on a regular basis in Gort na mBro to both deter and catch who is daubing walls in the area with racist graffiti according to local resident John Connolly.