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International Dark Sky Week: April 21-28th, 2025
Read More: International Dark Sky Week: April 21-28th, 2025Join the Mayo Dark Sky Park in celebrating International Dark Sky Week! FREE Events all week, starting Monday, April 21st. “International Dark Sky Week (IDSW) returns as the world’s largest celebration of dark skies (April 21–28, 2025) inviting people everywhere to discover the wonders of the night, understand the importance of natural darkness, and take
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Irish Astronomy Week
Read More: Irish Astronomy WeekIt is that time of year again and Ronan Newman has launched a superb calendar of events all over Ireland to celebrate Irish Astronomy Week from 1st – 8th March 2025. We are delighted to take part this year with events both in person and online and we hope you can join us. 1st March
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Dark Sky Champion Training 2025
Read More: Dark Sky Champion Training 2025BECOME A DARK SKY CHAMPION! FREE Professional Training in Belmullet and Westport (see below) Places limited, booking essential! This February 2025, Mayo’s tourism and hospitality sector has the opportunity to encourage staff to become Dark Sky Champions. Hosted by the team of Mayo Dark Sky Park / Wild Nephin National Park, this training is focused
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Reducing Light Pollution in Your Community
Read More: Reducing Light Pollution in Your CommunityWe recently produced this one page guide (see below) “How to Tackle Light Pollution in Your Community” as part of our partnership with Tidy Towns and Dark Sky Ireland. Reducing light pollution is relatively easy for communities to do with small changes and it has many benefits that align with the UNs Sustainable Development Goals.
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Mayo wins International Dark Sky Place of the Year 2024
Read More: Mayo wins International Dark Sky Place of the Year 2024We are thrilled to officially share that Mayo Dark Sky Park at Wild Nephin National Park is proud recipient of International Dark Sky Place of the Year award from DarkSky International. With over 220 dark sky places around the world, this is a very significant achievement. We’ve been busy in the 8 years since Mayo