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It has been 20 years since Riverdance burst onto the stage as the interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, prompting the whole world to sit up and take notice (and fall in love with) the power and beauty of Irish music and dance.

A number of speakers on marine tourism will be Mulranny on May 19 to talk about how entrepreneurs can ‘Capture the Blue Resource’.

“Life is sweeter under the sea.” So sings the quirky Jamaican lobster Sebastian in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

A man who battered and bit his girlfriend’s face after their child’s first Communion because she refused to go home with him that night, before then assaulting two female gardaí, was jailed for a total of seven months this week (February 6).

Castlebar Chamber will hold an open forum on June 5 next with speakers, Joe Gilmore, managing director of Ireland West Airport, and Brian Quinn, client services manager of Failte Ireland West.

A major workshop for all Connemara tourism stakeholders will be held next Monday in Kylemore Abbey.

A drunk man who was involved in a row outside a nightclub and told gardaí to “take me to court, I don’t care” was before Ballina District Court this week.

It may seem like a strange thing to say — especially in light of the claim by a leading stockbroker last week that the country is officially out of recession — but in some ways, this downturn has been good for us. Of course it is awful, terrible in the many ways it is hitting people in the pocket, in terms of job security, the desperate negative equity situation, fear for the future, and the general air of anxiety it has generated in society. At the same time, now that we have grown used to having to put up with all of these new stresses and are no longer playing the designer-name-keeping-up-with-the-Joneses game, we are being challenged on other levels and what is coming to the fore is our creativity.

Galway will play host to a new concept in adventure racing next month when the city hosts the first Galway City Rat Race.

A man found by gardai hiding under a table in a house he was trying to burgle whilst the residents were still upstairs, was jailed for nine months in the District Court earlier this week (November 11).