On the 16th of July 2025, the Mayo Dark Sky Park team (Left to Right: Molly, Georgia, Sinead) were invited on the Oliver Callan Show to share information, events, research, and more regarding the Wild Nephin National Park and the Mayo Dark Sky Park! Take a Listen Here (11 min, 10 sec): Mayo Dark Skies […]
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Join us for another Free LEGO Event! 11am – 4pm, Bank Holiday Monday, 4th August 2025 at Ballycroy VisitorCentre, Wild Nephin National Park. All Welcome! Due to popular demand, we will have another FREE Dark Sky 🌌themed LEGO event, “Constellation of Cottages” 🏚✨🏚. Help us build unique cottages in our Dark Sky Park, just like
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Mayo Dark Sky Park is delighted to announce the inaugural OPEN CALL for a SATELLITE Artist in Residence in partnership with UCD Parity Studios, UCD Centre for Space Research and UCD Earth Institute . This residency offers an artist the unique opportunity to do field research in Mayo Dark Sky Park , a Gold Tier
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Friends of Mayo Dark Skies launches “Community Constellations for DarkSkies” a new project for 2025, funded by The Heritage Council. We are delighted to share this Press Release from The Friends of Mayo Dark Skies Community Group (“Mayo Dark Skies”): Mayo Dark Skies is delighted to announce a brand new project for 2025 “Community Constellations
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Join 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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It 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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BECOME 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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We 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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We 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
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Today, Winter Solstice 2024 we can enjoy the broadcast of Dr Frank Chambers and Clare Tuffy from BrĂş na BĂłinne at Newgrange. This recording is accessible here and provided by the National Monument Service and Office of Public Works. https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/445b8-test Dr Frank Prendergast has also recently authored the Winter Solstice Research Report, a fascinating read
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