FESTIVAL WATCH GAA MUSEUM'S BIRTHDAYThe museum offers tours and workshops including a hurley making demonstration with John Torpey. For children, there's face painting and balloon modelling.
There are also competitions running throughout the day. These have been described as "a test of skill where the person who hits the sliotar or football farthest and fastest wins.
The museum will open at 9.30am, with the first tour at 10am, and will close at 6pm, with the last tour at 4.30pm
The organisers are expecting crowds of up to 1,000 people after a promising start of a booked out performance of Conor Lambert's "Punch and Judy.
Admission to this day is free, as are the events inside, but they need to be booked in advance at the GAA Museum on 01-8192323. for more information visit www.gaa.ie/museum
TODAY:Coverage of night one of The Rose of Tralee (left) competition is on RTÉ1, from 8pm with Ray D'Arcy. Heritage week events are taking place all over the country. Among today's events are a talk called Local Placename Secrets of Dublin, by Cathy Scuffil, historian and author, in Drumcondra library, and traditional storytelling in Johnston Central Library, Farnham Street, Cavan. For more events, see www.heritageweek.ie
Dublin Fashion Week begins as a mainly industry affair, but members of the public are welcome: at 6pm in the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Dublin 8, accountant Donal Bolger will give the benefit of his experience in the fashion biz.
TOMORROW:Fiddler on the Roof starts at INEC, Killarney. Tickets: €27.50-€40. See www.inec.ie. More eclectic Heritage Week events. Among others: A Talk on Giant Rhubarb (Gunnera Tinctoria) on Achill Island at Achill Sound Hotel at 8pm; and Eagles Flying (11am and 3pm all week) in the Irish Raptor Research Centre, Ballymote, Co Sligo.