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	<description>Celebrating 75 years of links between Ballinrobe and Lithuania</description>
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		<title>Aisva to perform at Lithuanian-style arts and crafts fair in Castlebar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Casimir, Lithuania&#8217;s patron saint is honoured every year in Vilnius during Kaziukas Fair (also known as St Casimir&#8217;s Fair) that dates back to the 17th century. The main marketplace fills with folk art, crafts, music and dance, attracting thousands. To celebrate Kaziukas Fair, a large annual folk arts and crafts fair, Band Aisva came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Festival Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve photos from the wonderful Fly Mayo 2010 Festival, please send them to us at info@ballinrobelithuania.com &#8211; let&#8217;s preserve the memories of a famous weekend when Ballinrobe, Mayo and Lithuania teamed up to remember the 75th anniversary of Felix Waitkus&#8217; famous flight. Thanks to John Murphy, Belfast, for sharing this selection of photos with us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fly Mayo deemed &#8220;a huge success&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a weekend that was – over 600 people turned up in Ballinrobe for the Fly Mayo Festival to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Felix Waitkus’ famous trans-Atlantic flight. And Fly Mayo is certainly here to stay as community and political leaders in Mayo and Lithuania expressed their commitment to the project. “The weekend was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karina is crowned Fly Mayo Festival Queen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening night of the Fly Mayo Festival saw 19 year-old Karina Belavenceva crowned as the Festival Queen, following the selection pageants held in the Festival Marquee. Five girls competed for the title, and now Karina will act as Festival Queen for this weekend. Her duties commence at 11o&#8217;c today when she joins Queen of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival Queen contestants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fly Mayo Festival Queen will be selected at a special pageant in the Fly Mayo Festival Marquee on Friday, September 24th (festival opening night). Local compere Liam Horan will be joined on-stage by a translator who will ensure language barriers are kept to a minimum. The Queen&#8217;s first official function will be to team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willie Hughes – Eye Witness account</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a recording made in 2006 where Willie Hughes, then aged 97, recalled the Sunday morning when the plan landed in Ballinrobe. Willie ran a business in the town. He would have been 26 years old at the time and recalls vividly hearing the plane overhead and realising it was in trouble and about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minios žmonių laukiamos Balinrobo festivalyje, kuriame bus paminėtas istorinis F. Vaitkaus transatlantinis skrydis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Įvykis Ballinrobe miestelyje, prieš 75-erius metus patekęs į pasaulio laikraščių viršelius, bus pažymėtas unikaliame festivalyje šiame Airijos Mayo grafystės miestelyje – į kurį planuoja atvykti šimtai lietuvių gyvenančių Airijoje. 1935-aisiais, blogos oro sąlygos privertė lietuvių pilotą Feliksą Vaitkų, bandžiusį pakartoti S.Dariaus ir S. Girėno skrydį per Atlantą, nusileisti visai netoli Balinrobo miestelio. Jis dieną prieš [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huge crowds expected for Ballinrobe festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Ballinrobe news event which created headlines all over the world 75 years ago will this month be the focus of a unique festival in the Co. Mayo town – and over 600 Lithuanian nationals are expected to travel from all over Ireland to take part. In 1935, bad weather conditions forced Lithuanian pilot Felix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Felix Waitkus&#8217; Ballinrobe meeting with Lady Sophie Heath</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many people who descended on Ballinrobe after the landing was Lady Sophie Heath, a famous aviation figure of the 1920s and 1930s. She was the first person &#8211; man or woman &#8211; to fly solo from Cape Town to London, with stops along the way, in 1928. When Felix landed in Ballinrobe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question &amp; Answer session with Phil Waitkus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Waitkus is a son of Felix Waitkus, whose emergency landing in Ballinrobe in 1935 became worldwide news. In this Question &#38; Answer session (conducted July 2010), he talks about his father and that famous trans-Atlantic flight. Phil lives in Wisconsin, USA. Did your father talk much about Ballinrobe? Actually my father spoke very little [...]]]></description>
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