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Venue change for open-air festival
An open-air music festival to be held this weekend featuring Jools Holland and Welsh opera star Katherine Jenkins has been reorganised due to poor ticket sales.
Organisers of the Dysart Music Festival cancelled the two-day festival near Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, and announced yesterday that they would hold an alternative event in Kilkenny city this weekend, but without headliners Jools Holland and Katherine Jenkins.
"It is with great disappointment that Dysart Festival will no longer take place as scheduled at Dysart Castle," said a spokesman.
Acts including The Blind Boys of Alabama, Republic of Loose, Gemma Hayes and John Martyn will play the Kilford Arms Hotel, Kilkenny, this Saturday and Sunday instead. Admission for the new event will cost €40.
Man bailed after being charged over child pornography images
A man has been remanded on bail after he was charged in connection with the seizure by gardaí of more than 15,000 images of child pornography found on a computer during a raid on a house in Co Cork.
David Ivers (52), Rathcoursey East, Midleton, Co Cork, was arrested yesterday morning and charged with possessing child pornography at his home on September 10th, 2007.
The State alleges that Mr Ivers knowingly possessed photographs and video images of naked children, contrary to section 6(1) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998.
Mr Ivers was brought before a vacation sitting of Mallow District Court where Judge Timothy Lucey remanded him on his own bail of €5,000 to appear again at Midleton District Court on September 14th. He must sign on at Midleton Garda station once a week.
Several hurt as knife produced during fight
One man was taken to hospital and several others were injured during a brawl in a rural village in Co Wexford on Monday morning, during which a butcher's knife and fork were produced.
Gardaí from Gorey, Enniscorthy and Wexford were called to Main Street, Blackwater village, at 2.30am after a fight got out of hand.
Ambulance personnel had to treat several people who had superficial wounds.
The fight appears to have started after a woman was punched in the face.
Enniscorthy gardaí said its members were currently unclear who the injured parties were and who the suspected offenders are.
He said "implements" were seized and suspects interviewed, but no arrests were made.
Army exercise near beach sparks tension
Tension arose between surfers and walkers and Army personnel yesterday over access to a beach in Co Donegal during a shooting exercise behind nearby sand dunes.
Surfers and leisure walkers claimed they were denied access to Tullan Strand in Bundoran by a soldier on sentry duty near a path leading down the cliffside to the beach. They said he stepped from a car to tell them the path was closed during the exercise on land to the rear of Finner Camp.
Angry local people insisted beach access had never been blocked during shooting exercises, although it was accepted the dunes above the strand were out of bounds for safety and security reasons.
About 40 people, including a surf school of 14 youngsters and two instructors, said there was a stand-off for about half an hour when they were denied access to the beach before the dispute was resolved.
Damon Fergus, whose family owns the land through which the public right-of-way passes, said: "In all the years I have been here, they have closed off the sand dunes during shooting, but never the beach."
Access was eventually granted after angry phone calls to Finner Camp.
Later, a soldier, one of two in a car near the pathway entrance, denied access was blocked. "People are being advised of the exercise behind the dunes and that they might wish to consider not going on to the beach," he said. "The choice is theirs."