A BUSY weekend of events is underway as Belfast hosts the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann competitions this weekend, with 5,000 musicians and dancers from 22 countries taking part.
MILLTOWN will be the place to be for GAA action in Belfast this evening as the 19-time Antrim Senior Football kings begin their championship campaign when they face St Ergnat's Moneyglass with both sides hoping to find an opening day victory.
TRANSLINK have revelled that there have been over one million passenger journeys across network over the first five days of the Fleadh – an additional 275,000 passenger journeys compared with the equivalent period last year
TODAY, Friday 7 August, sees the start of the hotly anticipated Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann competitions in Belfast, with over 5,000 competitors from 22 countries vying for All-Ireland titles in music, dancing and sean nós singing.
When Maria O'Neill's late and dramatic score secured victory over Carlow in Croke Park, the celebrations began and after a long hard-fought year which saw them earn promotion to the second-tier, an Ulster title and of course the All-Ireland Junior Championship.
IT is day five of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast and spirits are still high, ahead of what is traditionally the busiest period of the festival, from today Thursday through until Sunday 9 August.
