Ballyhoura Walking Festival, Co Limerick

If hitting the trails is your thing, then it’s time to lace up your boots for the Ballyhoura Walking Festival. This event takes place from Friday 7 October to Sunday 9 October, based out of the Co Limerick town of Kilfinane. Now in its 26th year, the Ballyhoura Walking Festival was one of the first of its kind in the country.

The walks on offer this weekend vary from moonlit walks, to sunrise walks, yoga and everything in between. The programme has something to suit almost everyone, with guided tours, easy walks and hikes for the more experienced trekkers. This is the second year the festival will take place in conjunction with the Joyce Brothers Music Festival.

More information on the full programme of walks on offer is available here.

Stories of Change the Exhibition, Co Kerry

Stories of Change the Exhibition was in Buncrana, Co Donegal at the end of September and has now made its way down the country to Waterville, Co Kerry. Not just an exhibition, Stories of Chnage encompasses workshops, food, music, yoga and more.

The exhibition will showcase portrait photos and stories of community changemakers and include the launch of The Characters of Stories of Change, a short video featuring 40 community changemakers interviewed in Donegal, Galway, Clare and Kerry. As well as the actual exhibition being in town, there will be a host of events taking place across Waterville.

More information is available here.

The Sleep that Ceased to Settle, Co Cork

If you’re considering a trip to the theatre this weekend, then the play, The Sleep that Ceased to Settle, might be an option. It’s suitable for family audiences and will premiere in the Fitzgibbon Co Cork, on Saturday 8 October. Written by internationally renowned playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer, the hour long play explores a father-daughter relationship alongside the reality of grief and is aimed at dreamers and anyone who has stayed up imagining different worlds.

Featuring Bob Kelly as Malley and Úna Ní Bhriain as nine-year-old Joanie, they are a -father-daughter duo who conjure new and exciting realms to counteract a lack of sleep as they process the loss of Joanie’s mother.

More information is available here.

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