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If you were to design a football stadium in a dream, you’d probably put it right on the water’s edge. You’d flank it with snow-capped mountains, dot the surrounding hills with Renaissance villas. ?In Como, this isn’t a dream. It’s just a standard match day at Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia.

What if this year you decided to take up a new language, refresh your school French, or even avail of greater job opportunities? Would you like your children to get a head start in French or achieve a H1 in their Junior or Leaving Cert examinations? Then, the French Institute has a course for you.

Elodie and her team of native teachers are back to the French Institute with new great classes to make you discover, love and progress in the French language and its culture.

The third annual National Dairy Awards, will take place in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise on the evening of June 19. Initially launched in 2023, the awards celebrate all that is good in the dairy industry. The event, dubbed the best night in the dairy calendar, is a black-tie event honouring the farmer, farm manager, dairy advisor, dairy vet and dairy innovator. The awards acknowledge their dedication and hard work.

Navigating the entire length of the Grand Canyon is the theme of a talk by kayaker Jamie Donald, in An Comhlacht Forbartha, An Ceardlann, An Spidéal, next Friday, March 28.

There are many ways to describe and understand the ecological issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, energy extraction and conservation. Scientists may tell us what is happening in the physical world, journalists may record significant events and policy debates and campaigners may provide the arguments that inform our thinking. But there are crucial contributions that imaginative literature can also make.

Thrilling tales of nomadic journeys in Siberia, the Sahara, and the hazards of climbing north faces of the European Alps are among themes of a bilingual and illustrated talk which mountaineer, writer and broadcaster Dermot Somers will give on February 6 in the Connemara Coast Hotel, Na Forbacha, Co Galway.

Galway dairy farmer and artisan cheese producer, Teresa Roche, was crowned Best Artisan Dairy Cheese 2024 winner at the second National Dairy Awards on Thursday night in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise.

Róisín Dubh Comedy will present an exclusive preview of comic Andrew Maxwell’s latest entry to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on Friday, June 28.