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DOWN District Council is hoping to entice the Pipe Band Championships back to Newcastle next summer.
The local authority plans to make a bid for one of next year’s piping competitions, after the town lost out to Bangor for the 2008 event.
Organisers of the annual event, which was a highlight of the town’s tourism calendar, have contacted Down District Council inviting them to make a bid to host the All Ireland or the Ulster Pipe Band championships in July or August 2009.
At a meeting of the local authority’s cultural and economic development committee last week, committee director, Ms Sharon O’Connor, outlined to politicians that the council had been contacted by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association about the events.

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