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RendezVous Events is organising a dinner party for single people in La Palma on The Mall on Friday 27th May. The dinner party is for people in their 30's and 40's who find themselves single and facing the eternal question - where do you meet like-minded people? The four course dinner with wine and including a welcome cocktail will be held in a fun, relaxed environment so you can enjoy a night out, make new friends and expand your social circle.

A huge range of programmes are being organised ty RendezVous including parties, dinner dates, speed dating, quizzes, a day at the races, wine tasting and much more. See their website http://www.myinfo.ie/rendevousevents for events across Munster. For more information or to join them for their first ever event in Waterford at La Palma on Friday 27th May contact Sandra

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Next Meeting of GIY Carrick-on-Suir Wednesday, 25th May 2011 Please Note Venue: Carraig Hotel, Carrick-on-Suir. Time: 7.00pm

The topic for our May meeting is ‘Poultry Keeping for beginners'. The speaker will be Jenny Nolan, Sec. of the poultry section at the Iverk Show & Junior Rep. for the Irish Society of Poultry Fanciers in Ireland. Jenny has a passion for all things poultry and recently appeared on the RTE programme Ear to the Ground.

Due to current renovation work in the library the meeting will be held in the function room of the Carraig Hotel and there will be a charge of €3 to cover costs, with U18s free.

Enquiries to Margaret at 087-6390224 or giy.carrickonsuir@gmail.com

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To book your place in the Waterford Adventure Race please log on to http://www.waterfordadventurerace.com

Bord Bia announced the details for Bloom 2011, Ireland's largest gardening, food and family festival which is celebrating its fifth year. Bloom will take place once again in the Phoenix Park, Dublin from Thursday June 2nd to Monday June 6th.

The event will showcase the best of Ireland's horticulture and food industry and key attractions this year include an Irish Craft Garden in association with the Crafts Council of Ireland to celebrate the Year of Craft; Bloom's first international garden from China and the new Bord Bia Food Village. Waterford Institute of Technology will host an education unit in the Nursery & Floral Marquee at this year's event.

Aidan Cotter, Chief Executive, Bord Bia said "Bloom

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Classic and vintage run of cars, motorbikes, tractors, lorries, scooters and stationery engines for SERT South East Radiotherapy Trust. SERT is a Waterford charity set up to provide transport for cancer patients from throughout the south east to attend radiotherapy in Waterford and Cork as part of their treatment. There are eight SERT vehicles on the road now based in Waterford, Dungarvan, Kilkenny, Wexford and Clonmel and are driven by teams of volunteer drivers.

The run will begin in the IDA Business Park across from the Whitfield Clinic. All vehicles will gather here from 10am. All vehicles will be on view for all the family and friends. It makes for a great day out where there will be amenities such as a bouncy castle for the kids. All are welcome.

All money collected will be donated to sERT. There will be no

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There is an undeniable trend that has seen the considerable growth of Farmer's markets in Ireland in recent years. Markets have come a long way; from humble beginnings when farmers sold fruit and vegetables direct from their farms to a flourishing industry that sees sausage makers, cheese producers, bakers and choclatiers displaying their unique and original produce in vibrant and congenial settings.

One such market is the Ardkeen Artisan Market, which is based in the car park of Ardkeen Quality Food Store on Sunday mornings, twice a month. This lively market was established in 2006 and today boasts over 20 different producers.

All the foods are produced regionally and the lip smacking selection includes Irish apples and juices, Wexford potatoes, Comeragh mountain lamb, Dunhill venison, savoury tarts, chutneys and relish, French crepes, hand-roasted coffee, homemade scones, continental breads, farm house cheeses and

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Only 38% of adults believe they are overweight

81% of men believe their waist size is within the "normal" range

safefood issued a wake up call aimed at tackling the serious health epidemic of overweight and obesity. New research commissioned by safefood reveals that being overweight is a much more common problem than we think, with only 38% of people believing they're overweight when in fact 61% are carrying excess weight. The new awareness campaign called "Stop the Spread" is alerting people that being overweight is now the ‘norm', has become visually and socially acceptable and that we no longer recognise the fact that we are carrying extra weight. The campaign's call to action is urging people to measure their waist to see if they

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New research into Irish Family meal times, and attitudes to cooking with rice, undertaken by Uncle Ben's to launch the ‘Begin with Ben' campaign, has revealed that the average time Waterford families spend together over the course of a week enjoying family meals is a maximum of 50-60 minutes. When broken down, that is an average of only 8 minutes per day! It appears a number of factors such as working long hours and family pressures have taken their toll on family meal times, resulting in a serious lack of time available to families to spend quality time and enjoy each other's company over a home cooked meal.

Of those surveyed, 25% said they spend a maximum of 20 minutes together per week; a further 20% said they would spend 25 minutes together, another 20% said they would spend up to

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PADDY CASEY, Ireland's favourite troubadour, is currently on a whistle stop tour around Ireland's best small venues to give fans an up close and personal show, playing his best known songs from 3 great albums. He plays his first Waterford show in a couple of years at the Forum Lounge this Saturday, 21 May. Paddy achieved huge commercial success with his second album "Living" which went 11 times Platinum in Ireland, selling 175,000 copies to become one of the biggest selling albums of all time in this country. With it's holy trinity of singles "Want It, Can't Have It", "Saints & Sinners" and "The Lucky One", the album dominated Ireland's charts in 2004 and resulted in Paddy playing a record breaking 8 nights at Dublin's Olympia Theatre, as well as major outdoor festival shows around the country. Paddy first came

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Fred head out on an extensive Irish tour this month to launch their brilliant 4th album, "Leaving My Empire", including a date at the Forum Lounge in Waterford this Friday, 20th May. Support on the night comes from rapidly emerging Waterford band, Podium. Doors are at 8pm and admission is €10, pay on the door. At the start of November last year, the five members of Fred travelled to Montreal to start recording the album. The recording duties were given to Howard Bilerman at his renowned ‘Hotel2Tango' studio. As well as recording and playing on Arcade Fire's debut ‘Funeral', Howard has also worked his magic with an array of great artists including Wolf Parade, God Speed You Black Emperor and British Sea Power. Fred had spent nearly a year laying low, writing

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Following the spectacular success of their recent debut show in The Boho Club at the Forum, old skool OASIS rockers Mad Ferritt have been confirmed at the same venue for The Tall Ships Festival on Saturday 2nd July. Mad Ferritt brought the huge crowd right back to the 90's with an authentic, swaggering Liam Gallagher and the raw guitar sound and energy of OASIS at their early best. The band are already adding more classic songs to the set list following requests from the audience, so this next show is going to be bigger and better and it's not to be missed.

For more details look for 'Mad Ferritt' on Facebook and Twitter.

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John Coltrane - Jazz, Racism & Resistance

A public talk under the above title will be held on Wednesday 25th May in Greyfriars, Waterford at 8pm. Organised by the Waterford Council of Trade Unions.

The presentation will focus on the music of John Coltrane. "Trane" arrived at that point in history, where his innovations within the great Afro-American music called Jazz coincided with the struggle for civil rights and real change in the United States. As he developed his musical voice it became the voice of resistance to racism for the Afro-American.

Martin Smiths multimedia presentation is delivered with a passion and commitment for the music and a profound hatred of racism to give us a deep and rounded portrait of the great black musician John Coltrane.

Martin Smith is a London born author and long time anti-racism activist associated with the anti-Nazi league.

Admission

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Institution Return To Rock Caulfields

This Saturday 21st of May

For the past 10 years, Caulfields on the Yellow Road, Waterford has played host to the Global Big Paulie Kool And The Mental Institution Fan Club Conference (or the GBPKATMIFCC as it is affectionately known), on the Saturday night of the Spraoi weekend and this year will be no different as Institutionalites worldwide gather to pay homage to their heroes while listening to some of their greatest hits performed by some of the world's top Mental Institution tribute acts. But, hold on to your hats, because word has just reached us that the real life Big Paulie Kool And The Mental Institution will be performing at Caulfields on Saturday the 21st of May. This monumentous announcement was made before the world's

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The success of Smash Hits at The Forum has proved Waterford's mad love for all things 90s. For those of you who cannot wait until their next visit at the end of June (tickets on sale now at Next Door Forum Waterford ! ), why not hit the Forum Lounge on Bank Holiday Sunday, 5th June, for the "Pump Up The Jam" clubnight, featuring Ray C from Beat102103's "Old Skool Sundays". It's a winning formula with Ray playing out all the BIG club tunes from the 90s in the very glamorous surrounds of the Lounge. So put the date in your diary for the June Bank Holiday, grab your bum bag, bleach the tips of your hair and hit the dance-floor for "U Can't Touch This", "Rhythm Of The Night", "Gangster's Paradise", "It's My Life", "What Is Love", "Ice Ice

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Two new exhibitions are about to open at Garter Lane Galleries.

36 Frames is a photographic exhibition by Waterford's PhotoNerds Camera Club members. The Swimming Naked Prophecy is an exhibition that was curated by Nora Hickey and Eilis Lavelle of the Mermaid Arts Centre Bray and includes works by 25 Irish-based artists.

Both exhibitions will officially launch concurrently on Saturday 21st May 2011 at 4.30pm at Garter Lane Theatre Gallery, 22a O'Connell Street and 5.30pm at Garter Lane Gallery, 5 O'Connell Street, Waterford.

In this economic low tide the Mermaid Arts Centre Bray invited 25 Irish based artists to respond to legendary investor Warren Buffett's renowned observation "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked"

(Warren Buffet).

Buffett's metaphorical citation offers a humorous mental image of the repercussions of careless speculation, one befitting Ireland's current economic situation with bank bailouts,

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Only one week left to get your tickets for Eden, the award winning play by Eugene O'Brien opening at the Theatre Royal next Wednesday, the 25th of May.

Oren Little, Marketing Manager of the Theatre Royal says that "Eden is the highlight of the Summer Season for the Theatre Royal." She adds "There is a great buzz around town about Eden, so many people who loved the play when they first saw it ten years ago are looking forward to the seeing it again, especially with our great Waterford actors, Jenni Ledwell and Michael Power starring in it this time". It is also the ten year anniversary of the show and a reunion for the author, Eugene O'Brien – who will be in Waterford to see it, and Eden's director Ben Barnes, who discovered the play while the director of the

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