New film made on Mayo location

COMMUNITY NOTES: BALLYHAUNIS - WESTERN PEOPLE (NOVEMBER 5 EDITION)

Congratulations to Ballyhaunis Tidy Towns for a terrifically produced video on the local Dalgan River which is now available for viewing at the popular online video-sharing site Youtube.

Titled ‘Story from the West: The Dalgan River, County Mayo’, the video was shot by local photographer and videographer Adam Kaczmarek and narrated by Abaigeal Warfield. The script was written by the Women Writing Out West, a women’s writing group that meets every month in Ballyhaunis.

Featuring marvellous underwater videography and shots of the river’s meandering course at various times of the year, the video also raises concerns about the health of the river whose water was described as of “moderate” quality in the Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent report on the local water treatment plant operated by Uisce Éireann.

The Dalgan is monitored every quarter by volunteers from Ballyhaunis Tidy Towns in cooperation with the Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO), a regional government effort to improve water quality which also trained the Ballyhaunis citizen scientists.