Visiting travel writers and explorers will shortly explore the theme of ‘extraordinary adventures’ at the 17th annual Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel.

The seventh annual Lismore Opera Festival will take place at Lismore Castle, Co Waterford, on June 3 and 4.

THE sixth Lismore Music Festival takes place at the weekend. It’s Ireland’s only summer opera festival, competing with the well-established English Glyndebourne and other mid-European events.

A world-renowned travel writer, who proposed to his wife while visiting Lismore in 2010, will return this month to speak at an event celebrating the Immrama travel writing festival.

A 21-year-old WIT student is literally putting her mark on the heritage town of Lismore.