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Don’t Forget! \"\u26a0\ufe0f\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\ud83c\udf89\"It’s our birthday!\"\ud83c\udf82\"\"\ud83c\udf8a\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2016, a Gold Tier \"\ud83e\udd47\" standard of International Dark Sky Park was awarded to Mayo Dark Sky Park at Wild Nephin National Park – P\u00e1irc N\u00e1isi\u00fanta N\u00e9ifinne Fi\u00e1ine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kicking off on Saturday the 2nd of May and running throughout the entire weekend, Mayo Dark Skies are celebrating in style throughout!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details for the events are below and the link for Dr. Niamh Shaw’s talk is here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/…\/dr-niamh-shaws-reflections…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope you can come and join in on all the celebrations! \"\ud83e\udd73\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s our birthday! In May 2016, a Gold Tier standard of International Dark Sky Park was awarded to Mayo Dark Sky Park at Wild Nephin National Park – P\u00e1irc N\u00e1isi\u00fanta N\u00e9ifinne Fi\u00e1ine Kicking off on Saturday the 2nd of May and running throughout the entire weekend, Mayo Dark Skies are celebrating in style","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27829,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27826\/revisions\/27829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalparks.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}