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Derek Dempsey of Newport Astronomy Club, talking about the club and the Mayo Dark Sky Festival

18 August 2018

Georgia MacMillan of Friends of Mayo Dark Skies, talking about Mayo Dark Sky Park and the impact of light pollution

18 August 2018

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Jul 21, 2019

Apollo 50 Event

Well, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the W Cinema in Westport yesterday, as Brian MacGabhann explained to a full house 'How we got to...

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Jul 4, 2019

Symposium News - Bursary

To help promote broad European participation, the International Dark-Sky Association is pleased to offer a bursary of up to €400 to an ID...

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Jul 1, 2019

Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing, Friends of Mayo Dark Skies have invited festival favourite BRIAN MacGABHANN back ...

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Jun 5, 2019

Call for Papers

Call for Papers The organisation committee is calling for abstract submissions. To present your talk/research presentation at the confere...

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May 4, 2019

European Symposium logo

We hope you like our logo... Remember, for any information about the European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky - or the Mayo...

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Apr 28, 2019

European Symposium dates announced

‘The European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky’ was originally held in France in 1998 and most recently in Pamplona, Spain i...

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Apr 17, 2019

Symposium dates announced

The Friends of Mayo Dark Skies are proud and honoured to be hosting the 14th European Symposium for the Protection of the Night Sky 3-5 N...

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Mar 17, 2019

International Dark Sky Week

Of course, Mayo Dark Skies is not just about our annual Mayo Dark Sky Festival! We organise many dark sky themed events all year round, o...

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Feb 1, 2019

Astronomy Ireland

Many thanks to the gang at Astronomy Ireland Magazine for the great coverage of our 2018 festival in the Jan/Feb issue of the magazine! #...

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Jan 31, 2019

Georgia's a winner!

Well done to our very own Georgia MacMillan who won the Outsider Magazine's Eco Hero Award last night in Dublin. Georgia won the award f...

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Jan 22, 2019

Dates set for 2019 festival

Mark your calendars and set your reminders... The 2019 Mayo Dark Sky Festival will take place from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd November 2019...

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Nov 20, 2018

Senior Times

Many thanks to George Keegan of Senior Times who attended our 2018 Festival after writing this piece for the Nov/Dec issue of the popular...

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Nov 18, 2018

Feedback Survey WINNER

Congratulations to DAVID BRANIGAN, who is the winner of a €50 voucher from Ktec Telescopes David’s name was selected at random from all t...

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Mayo Dark Skies

Nov 17, 2018

Feedback Survey

Well, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves last weekend and we hope that those of you who made it to our festival also had lots of fun! Each y...

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Symposium Web App

October 14, 2019

2018 Festival shaping up...

July 29, 2018

FREE Shuttle Bus

October 24, 2019

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