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Police in New Zealand are treating the death of a Galway man who drowned in Wellington Harbour at the weekend as an accident.

With emigration currently hurting Irish families, it is good to learn this week that some of Mayo’s fine young people are turning heads in Australia, with three young men from the county having been selected as finalists in the St Patrick’s Day Parade 2012 in Sydney.

Located deep in New Zealand’s southern Alps, on the shores of crystal clear Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown has earned the right to be mentioned fleetingly as the planet’s number one adventure capital.

Next month will see The Saw Doctors travelling to Australia for their first time in 17 years and the band is calling on Irish backpackers as well as the Australian-Irish community to come out in force and support the band.