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A benefit brunch and ceili at Brittingham’s Irish Restaurant in Lafayette Hill will raise money to send two young musicians to the All-Ireland competitions in August. The 24th annual Tour de Shore, sponsored by the Irish Pub, will send 1,300 cyclists from Philly to Atlantic City to benefit kids’ charities. The documentary “Jig” opens this week at the Bala Theatre, And it’s Musikfest!

We’ll have more details as we get closer, but here’s a quick heads-up on this year’s program, scheduled to run from September 8 through 10 at the Philadelphia Irish Center.

No one is sure of the final score. At the end of Saturday’s game at Northeast High School, nobody much cared. But if you were looking for a way to spend a summer afternoon, you couldn’t do much better than to watch hurling with the local boys.

To be Irish in Philly, you may have to go down the shore. That’s where many of your local favorites are. But stay in town this week for Enter the Haggis and The John Byrne Band at the Sellersville Theatre on Sunday.

Spike TV sent three top restaurant “fixers” to Downey’s Irish Restaurant in Philly last May, including Philly’s top Irish chef, Brian Duffy. The show, part of the “Bar Rescue” series, airs Sunday. But it may not have a happy ending.

The Philadelphia Ceili Group brought Cavan born fiddler Antoin Mac Gabhann to town for a house concert last Friday night…and it was a night of brilliant tunes and craic.

Join Alex, littlest member of the Martin Family Band, at Graeme Park in Horsham this weekend for the annual Celtic Heritage Festival. Many more Irish-themed events this week both in the Philly area and the Shore.

He’s chaplain to five Irish organizations–and on Sunday, Father Edward Brady was installed as the new pastor of St. Anne’s Church in Kensington. Expect to hear more bagpipe music around the old place.