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Some 23 free events have been planned in towns and villages across Mayo to celebrate Culture Night 2014 on September 19.

Mayo Fine Gael deputy Michelle Mulherin has played down any suggestion that the Taoiseach should have elevated at least one woman from the backbenches to a junior ministerial role.

Viking weapons and boats, which have lain submerged for almost a thousand years, have been discovered in Lough Corrib.

More than 1,000 people took part in a three mile march last Sunday to highlight the Government’s failure to provide necessary services through the medium of Irish in the Gaeltacht.

The population of a protected bird that likes to hide in heather on a Mayo bogland has doubled.

Far from being idle or derelict, work is “proceeding satisfactorily” at the Solas Picture Palace site, and the group behind the project to bring an art house cinema to Galway is launching a major campaign to ensure its completion within the next year.

A delegation from Westport Town Council is to go to the offices of the NRA in order to meet representatives, as they “won’t come to us”.

The Irish Georgian Society (www.igs.ie) and conservation officers from Galway and Clare county councils are partnering to deliver a seminar on energy efficiency in historic houses. This half-day seminar will be held from 1pm today (Thursday) at the Loughnane and Quinn Memorial Hall, Labane, on the Galway to Gort road.

The key to the smart economy could be in your rubbish, according to the organisers behind a ‘Rethink, Recycle, and Remake’ free networking event which aims to stimulate and motivate entrepreneurs to turn waste into jobs.

Kilkenny County Council has a limited amount of time to draw down funding of up to €1 million before it reverts back to the Department of Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, according to the Quarterly Housing Report.