Author: Ray Forde

Empowering Women in Today’s World: Graça Machel to Deliver the Second Annual International Human Rights Lecture of The Mary Robinson Centre: Ballina, 19 October 2015: One of the world’s leading women’s rights activists will visit Ballina next month, when Graça Machel delivers The Mary Robinson Centre’s second Annual International Human Rights Lecture on November 28th. Graça Machel, who came to prominence as the Minster for Education and Culture in Mozambique following independence in 1975 has dedicated her life to the advancement of women and girls through education, health care, peace and security. Within two years of her term as...

November see’s the first ever Drama Festival unfold at the ultra modern Ballina Arts Centre. Already, as with most ventures undertaken in Ballina, the core group, under the guidance of Eugene Loftus, have already been afforded generous goodwill and support, all which suggest that although inaugural, this event will be much sought after on the D.L.I. festival circuit in the future. The three night programme offers great variety, with a wide audience appeal and boasts some of the finer visiting competing groups. These groups will benefit from a review by the renowned ANNA WALKER nightly at the “Festival Club”...