The Mise Éire festival is taking place at Castlebar's Ivy Tower Hotel (formerly The Welcome Inn), Saturday, August 23. My brother and I managed to get free tickets from people who could not attend the event, to give the public the inside scoop on what went on. The age profile of those attending appeared to be mainly people in their 50s - though I spotted a few children in the midst of the audience. There was a high proportion of people from Dublin in attendance, though I did hear Mayo accents dispersed around the place. At an event made up...