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Search By Live95 News Team The headliners for Limerick s St Patrick s Day festival have been announced.
Sharon Shannon, Hermitage Green, MuRli and Emma Langford will take to the virtual stage for the Wild Atlantic Edge concert St Patrick s night.
That afternoon, Grammy award winning musician Rhiannon Giddens will lead the Virtual St Patrick s Day Fling , which promises to be once in a lifetime unique event.
The festival, which runs from the 13th to the 20th of March, will be streamed via Limerick.ie and their social media pages.
Limerick’s young musicians will also be showcasing their talents from the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Sing Out with Strings and the Irish Chamber Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and Music Generation Limerick City.
Limerick St Patrick s Festival returns with a line-up of virtual events
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LIMERICK people at home and abroad are being invited to mark St Patrick s Day by taking part in this year s virtual Limerick St Patrick’s Festival.
Limerick City and County Council, with the support of Fáilte Ireland, has created a festival programme of events and fun family content that will be broadcast online and on social media on March 17.
The headline event is Wild Atlantic Edge – Music, Conversations and Songs from Limerick City.
Working in partnership with Dolans, the event will feature some of Ireland’s most celebrated musicians including Sharon Shannon, Hermitage Green, MuRli, Emma Langford and a host of surprise special guests.
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THE COMMITTEE behind Cullivoe Up Helly Aa is dishing up an elaborate programme of online events this weekend to compensate for what would have been the biggest social shindig in the Yell.
With all fire festivals cancelled all over Shetland due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Yell Up Helly Aa committee is inviting everybody join in virtually.
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On Friday night a selection of squad performances from the past decade will be available to watch on the Cullivoe Up Helly Aa’s Facebook or YouTube pages starting from 8pm with a video montage of previous processions and galley burnings.
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Luke O’Neill is a world-renowned professor of biochemistry and immunology at Trinity College Dublin. \ Philip Doyle
When Professor Luke O’Neill was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, he was playing guitar in a band called The Sleeping Arrangements.
They played a lot of pub gigs and at one stage were offered an elusive tour of Europe.
Despite some of his bandmates really wanting to pursue the opportunity, Luke declined. There was another area of his life going very well and he wanted to focus on that.
“Of course some of the guys, they weren’t impressed, ‘We wanted to go and you said no’. I said no because I had just made a big discovery in the lab.