• Over 600 Lithuanians will converge on Ballinrobe for the Festival
  • This will include representatives of the Lithuanian Government, the Lithuanian Ambassador to Ireland
  • High-ranking public figures in Mayo and Ireland will also attend
  • People from the locality and region will be attracted to attend by the range of events
  • Opportunity to promote Ballinrobe and Mayo nationally and internationally
  • Copper fastens Ballinrobe’s and Mayo’s status as the unofficial hubs of Lithuanian life in Ireland
  • Opportunity to promote Ballinrobe and Mayo as a tourist destination for Lithuanian visitors – particularly as we have the permanent, and much-admired, Felix Waitkus Memorial, which was erected in 2007, to coincide with our first Lithuanian festival
  • Prospect of national radio and TV coverage here and in Lithuania