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€5m Fund Announced to Support Reopening of Arts, Music and Entertainment Businesses The Commercial Entertainment Capital Grant Scheme (CECGS) offers grants of €25k to organisations and companies reopening for staff, classes and audiences. A new funding scheme to support businesses working in the arts and entertainment sector has just been announced by the Department of […]
Adare Poetry Town 2021 Adare has been selected along with 19 other towns across Ireland to host a poetry festival 10th-18th September 2021. Further details will be added here as the program builds over the next few days but you can see details of the umbrella organisation Poetry Ireland. Local poets Michael Durack, John Liddy, Jessica […]
Ireland’s top craft beer breweries and bluegrass and roots musicians participated in the 2015 Doolin Craft Beer & Roots Festival at the weekend. The largest event of its kind outside of Dublin was hosted on the grounds of Hotel Doolin in County Clare. Featuring pub music sessions and stalls hosting food produce from throughout the […]
Castleconnell county Limerick has spread its net far and wide for the inaugural John Enright Fly Casting festival this weekend. Festival organiser, John MacNamara, said Mr Enright’s international exploits brought fame and glory to his native village, and they have a packed schedule from this Friday, October 11 to Sunday, October 13. Competitors, including the […]
A number of top Irish and international rugby legends are set to take part in a newly-announced festival happening in Limerick in October. The Limerick Civic Trust Legends International Tag Rugby Festival will see some of the greats of the game togging out at the UL Sports Arena on October 25 and 26. These include […]
As Limerick’s hurlers prepare to do battle with neighbours Clare in Sunday’s All-Ireland Hurling Senior Championship Semi-Final, the County Limerick town of Kilmallock recreated its own battle scene as part of Kilmallock’s Walled Town Day. Hundreds of people stepped back in time on Saturday August 17th.for the annual event and experienced a glimpse of life […]
‘ART, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder’ That adage certainly holds true in the case of murals painted near King John’s Castle last week that have caused a conflict of opinion amongst locals. The murals, commissioned by Limerick City Council, as part of the ‘Make a Move’ festival have been described as […]
An Italian Doctor’s chance discovery of the therapeutic effects of Irish set dancing in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease will be the subject of an international Gathering event in Co. Clare next month. Dr Daniel Volpe who is the Director of Neurological Rehabilitation at St. Raffaele Arcangelo Hospital in Venice will present his research work […]
International and local trad music fanatics gathered at the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy for the launch of the annual Fleadh Cheoil Na Mumhan last week. The festival, which celebrates Ireland’s heritage in music and the arts, started with a few teaser events on Sunday ahead of the official launch on Tuesday evening at […]
