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Details of the 2014 Clare Island Charity Walk were announced at the launch in Walshe’s Bridge Inn, Newport this week. This, the seventh year of this great walking event, will take place on Saturday, June 28 and all funds raised will go to Western Care Association local services. Speaking at the launch Clare Island Walking Committee chairman, Willie Murphy, stated that he and his committee are delighted to be supporting Western Care Association this year. Western Care is a community based organisation that provides support to more than 1,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families throughout County Mayo. The Annual Clare Island Charity Walk has grown from strength to strength over the years and the hard working committee have raised in excess of €100,000 for local and regional charities and causes over the past six years. It provides a great opportunity to visit the idyllic Clare Island and experience the beauty and scenery of the island and Clew Bay.

A raffle in conjunction with the Clare Island sponsored walk will take place on Friday August 22 in the Key West Pub, Derrycooshe, Islandeady in aid of Mayo Cancer Support Association.

GALWAY SINGER, musician, songwriter, and founder member of Sweeney’s Men Joe Dolan, will be remembered with a session in Oughterard.

IRISH TRAD and folk enjoy an unprecedented worldwide popularity, but it is easy to forget where it all began in the late 1960s and 1970s and the great debt owed to an earlier generation of ballad and folk singers.

OUGHTERARD’S FAVOURITE traditional music group, Ardvarna, launch their new CD The Lakeshore Town on Sunday in the Crane Bar.

THE GALWAY Sessions, the city’s trad and folk festival, organised by Mick Crehan, takes place next week and will feature Mick Hanley, Ben Taylor, and Alec Finn.

Pat Conneely, in conjunction with Mayo Cancer Support Association, is organising a sponsored walk on Clare Island on Saturday August 22 commencing from the pier at 11.30am. Refreshments will be served and tee-shirts are available on the day. A raffle in conjunction with the walk will be held.