The Celtic European Festival of the Sea was launched Tuesday 7 February in the Loughs Agency in Derry. The Festival, which is supported by the European Union’s INTERREG programme and being organised by North West Rural Development, will run from the 22 May – 4 June 2006 along the North Coast of Ireland, from the Inishowen Peninsula in Co. Donegal to Cushendall in Co. Antrim.