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WORLD RENOWNED bluegrass player Martin Goss and Stuttgart's Mr Big Band, will be among those playing the bluegrass weekender in Kilcolgan tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.

Tourism Ireland in Germany kicked off its busy programme of promotions for 2015 last week – with a strong presence at CMT (Caravan, Motor and Tourism Fair) in Stuttgart.

Christy Moore makes a welcome return visit to Galway next week when he plays two concerts in Leisureland, on Thursday May 15, and Friday 16 (the latter is already sold out). Ahead of his appearances here, he took some time to chat about his life-long love for music, his family and his current tour.

Seamus Heaney was not quite sure whether, as an adult, he ‘invented backwards’ some of his earliest fascination with words, but he didn’t think so. Because he could still picture the small boy absorbed by the old wireless in his farmhouse home, between Castledawson and Toomebridge, in Northern Ireland.* He would touch and pronounce some of the names on its dial, such as Hilversum, Stuttgart and Leipzig.

Fourteen tourism enterprises from Ireland - including Waveline Cruises which is based in Athlone - travelled to Stuttgart recently, to join Tourism Ireland for this year’s CMT (Caravan, Motor, and Tourism) Fair. At the fair, the busy Tourism Ireland stand took first prize for best stand, beating off stiff competition from 2,000 other exhibitors.

“We must seek to build together an active, inclusive citizenship; based on participation, equality, respect for all, and the flowering of creativity in all its forms. A confident people is our hope, a people at ease with itself, a people that grasps the deep meaning of the proverb; Ní neart go cur le chéile’ - our strength lies in our common weal - our social solidarity.”

Mercedes-Benz in Ireland has fastened on to the importance of social media with its arrival on Facebook and the launch of its new interactive movie Drive & Seek, which went live recently.

AutumnFest is coming to Freshford again and takes place on Thursday October 28.

The powerful Volkswagen 1.4-litre TSI twincharger engine scooped top award at the International Engine of the Year Awards for the second consecutive year.

The powerful Volkswagen 1.4-litre TSI twincharger engine has scooped the top award at the International Engine of the Year Awards for the second consecutive year