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West over Sea

West over Sea

This year’s Tobermory Book Festival closed with a gala dinner in the company of world renowned and best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith who read a poem, composed that morning, inspired by the couple of days he had just spent in Tobermory at the Festival. A very special moment for the Read More
Mull's TV Stars!

Mull’s TV Stars!

Mull folk are featuring on national TV at the moment, and Banjo Beale of Designing the Hebrides fame, caught up with Douglas Swinbanks (Survivor) in Tobermory recently.
Banjo and the team at Designing the Hebrides have just won a BAFTA for Best Feature, which was presented at the 2023 BAFTA Read More

20th Anniversary Success

20th Anniversary Success

Comunn Gàidhealach Mhuile celebrate their 20th anniversary with victory at the Royal National Mòd in Paisley. The choir were successful in the U13 Unison taking home the Donald & Mamie MacPhail Trophy, the Darlington Society Silver Jubilee Trophy for the highest marks in Gaelic and the Morag Robb Memorial Trophy Read More

Sound of Iona Music Festival

Sound of Iona Music Festival

A new Scottish music festival is heading to Iona in 2024. The Sound of Iona Music Festival will see a host of indie rock and Scottish folk acts take to the stage on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of June next year.
The festival is bursting with Scottish talent including Read More

Finally Fergus!

Finally Fergus!

Barlow claims Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally win
Tobermory driver Fergus Barlow fulfilled a “boyhood dream” to win his home rally, by taking victory at the Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally, held on 13-15 October.
After seventeen stages and over 134 miles of competitive action, it was the local hero Read More

Mendelssohn on Mull 2023

Mendelssohn on Mull 2023

This year’s festival of chamber music, otherwise known as MoM, was a true delight. Put together one established chamber quartet, 8 young professional musicians and place them on the Isle of Mull for a week to rehearse and perform together, and as festival manager Richard Jeffcoat puts it ‘magic happens’.
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Local Mòd

Local Mòd

The Mull Mòd took place this year on the 8th and 9th of September in Tobermory. We had a record number of entries, with an estimated 300 children competing (once choirs and action songs were taken into consideration) on the Friday, and over 120 adults on Saturday. Because of the Read More

Tobermory Lifeboat Day 2023

Tobermory Lifeboat Day 2023

Sunday 13 August saw the return of Tobermory Lifeboat Day which has raised more than £3000 to help train and kit out our volunteer crew, and launch the all-weather lifeboat to those in need
After a dreich start, Tobermory Lifeboat Day kicked off with the Severn class lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Read More

Bunessan 5's

Bunessan 5’s

‘Historic tournament returns to the Ross’
Saturday 28th July saw the return of the eagerly anticipated Bunessan 5-a-side football tournament to the Ross of Mull after a prolonged Covid-19 induced absence. Around 100 competitors descended on the ‘Bun-Etihad’, otherwise known as the Bunessan School playing field, with players travelling Read More

Salen Show 2023

Salen Show 2023

Mull & Morvern Agricultural Society were blessed with a warm sunny day for Salen Show on 10th August, and the crowds duly came out to enjoy it. There was plenty to entertain the wee ones, with a bouncy castle and rodeo bull, and laser clay shooting. An Tobar had also Read More

Bunessan Show 2023

Bunessan Show 2023

The annual Bunessan Show is known for its friendliness, and this was borne out by the atmosphere at the show ground on 4th August – wherever you looked, you saw animated conversations and happy faces. This was one of the busiest shows for some years, which is very encouraging in Read More

Mull Half Marathon & 10k

Mull Half Marathon & 10k

The Mull Half Marathon and 10k took place on the 22nd July and attracted 200 entrants from many parts of the UK and abroad. We had restricted the number to 250 as there was a change of leadership, and after Covid and Calmac problems, we were being a bit more Read More