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Over 28 people attended the Mayo Open Coffee Club speed networking event which was held in association with Castlebar Chamber of Commerce.

Mayo companies Pamex Ltd and PEL recycling have been recognised as InterTradeIreland Business Ambassadors for Mayo at a special event held with Minister Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in Dublin. More than 80 TDs and senators were also in attendance at the event which recognised SMEs that have excelled through North-South trade and innovation.

Kilmeen Drama Group from Rossmore in West Cork were crowned all Ireland drama champions for 2011 at the RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival gala awards ceremony in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone last Saturday night. The group won the event for the second time in their history with their production of Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark as well as picking up the awards for best actor - Declan Price, and best actress in a supporting role - Irene Kelleher.

The programme for the 2011 RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival was announced recently. Plays offered by the nine finalists will take place from Friday April 29 to Saturday May 7.

DUBLIN UNIVERSITIES swept the boards at The Irish Student Drama Association Awards which took place last Saturday in The Ardilaun on Taylor’s Hill.

SECOND AGE Theatre Company come to the Town Hall with a sleek new production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks, one of the brightest young directors in contemporary Irish theatre and a graduate of NUI, Galway.

Taking place across nine nights from March 4 to 12 at Roscommon Arts Centre, this year’s Roscommon Drama Festival features plenty of old classics and contemporary showstoppers to entertain all.

Kilkenny Modern Homes & Building Exhibition is back to provide ideas, advice and inspiration for those building, extending or improving their home.

“An ordinary Joe Soap from Mervue” has joined an elite list of presidents, royalty and world leaders to have been awarded with the highest accolade Rotary can bestow on a person

Without Mick Lally’s input and support, Druid Theatre Company might “never have existed”. So said Druid artistic director Garry Hynes, who paid tribute to the much loved actor who died this week.