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ONE CLARE venue is to host a night of Joe Dolan’s greatest hits, as a nationwide tour is announced in his memory for 2024.

The tour, entitled ‘Remembering Joe Dolan – The Annual Joe Dolan Festival’, will come to Glòr Theatre in Ennis on March 15, 2024. Tickets are from €30 and are on sale now.

Returning for its 15th year, the anniversary tour will see Joe’s brother Ben, who shared the stage with the singer for 47 years, highlighting his late sibling’s decorated singing career. 

Ben will be joined on stage by Joe’s niece Sandra, nephews Adrian and Ray with singer Karen Carroll and members of Joe’s original backing band.

Since his passing in 2007, Joe Dolan’s music is still played regularly. His song ‘You’re Such A Good…

Singer and actress Imelda May is to host a walking tour of key sites associated with women who participated in the 1916 Easter Rising.

The Dublin tour, which will be delivered by historians Liz Gillis and Honor O Brolchain, also aims to raise awareness of Moore Street residents’ plan to develop a Cultural Quarter in the area.

May said she was “delighted” to host the tour on October 14.

She said: “Moore Street is a very important part of our built history and our revolutionary history.

“We want to do this on behalf of the women that were involved in the Rising and hopefully save this place from yet another developer, who it doesn’t feel like cares much for our history.

“I think it is crucial that it is treated delicately because it means so…