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06 Sept 2025

Ballinrobe to host Mayo’s Africa Day celebrations

Ballinrobe Racecourse to host Africa Day event on May 25

Ballinrobe to host Mayo’s Africa Day celebrations

Michael Chanda from the Discovery Gospel Choir; footballer Roberto Lopes; Minister of State, Sean Fleming TD and designer Virtue Shine at the launch of Africa Day (Pic: Julien Behal Photography)

BALLINROBE will host this year's Africa Day celebrations on Saturday May 25 from 1 pm to 5 pm at the Ballinrobe Racecourse.

Africa Day is the annual worldwide celebration of the people, cultures, and potential of the African continent.

This year, all 31 local authorities across Ireland - including Mayo - will host various cultural, artistic, and family-friendly events. These will include contemporary African-Irish culture, as well as family fun days, fashion, art, film, music, dance, and food events, which will take place in towns and cities across Ireland.

The Mayo event will consist of a cultural celebration through music, art, dance and song, family fun day, and an exhibition highlighting the Irish Aid programme in Africa.

Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora, Seán Fleming TD, said: “ Ireland has growing trade, political and cultural links across the continent of Africa. Africa Day is an opportunity to promote those links and learn more about the diversity and vibrancy of African cultures.
Africa Day is an international day that commemorates the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963. It falls on May 25 each year.

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