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ÌýIt’s get outdoors weekend! Outdoor Recreation NI are encouraging everyone to get cycling, walking, riding, canoeing and climbing with 60 free activities today and tomorrow

Aideen Exley from Outdoor NI will join us along with Martin McGuigan who’s helping Omagh District Council with a variety of events at Gortin Glen.

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Five minutes from the cathedral city of Armagh is the village of Milford – and believe it or not it’s famous for the invention of the penalty kick.Ìý Anne-Marie finds out about this and other high points in Milford’s when she meets local man Stephen McManus at the Big House.ÌýÌý

Stephen is the curator of Milford House Museum which is available for tours by arrangement, visit or contact us at 08459555678

Chocolate and Castles today too, in the village of Killyleagh on the western side of Strangford Lough. The Chocolate and Fine Food Festival takes place today and tomorrow at Killyleagh castle, in honour of the local man who invented chocolate.Ìý Clive Scoular joins us to tell us all about the man in question, Hans Sloane. Ìý

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Bishop Hervey is still a well-remembered figure in the north west.Ìý The man who built the iconic Mussenden Temple and the first bridge across the River Foyle was also a scientist, philanthropist, patron of the arts an advocate of religious tolerance. Now you can explore that legacy from the Maiden City right up to the Giants Causeway. ÌýKen McCormack met Jim Hunter to learn about the Bishop Hervey trail.

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Last week we were talking about the McQuillan ruins in Ballylough More, County Antrim. It’s been the home of the Traill Family for over 200 years. Helen Mark has been taking a tour of the ruins with archaeologist Colin Breen and David Traill.

Jaw boxes, outside toilets, sunlight soap, boxes of broken biscuits and quarry blasting… memories of a different era, but the Belfast Hill Partnership has been researching local people’s stories for a social history project.Ìý We speak to two of the people involved, Jim Bradley and Rosalind Shaw.

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