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A town in Mayo has responded to the concerns raised by local older people about crime in their homes by developing a unique new initiative to help protect them against ‘rogue traders’.

ONE VENUE, the Galway Arts Centre, will host the work of four artists - Aideen Barry, Alan Butler, Maeve Clancy, Oonagh Young, and Sam Keogh - in an exhibition entitled Nine.

2014 promises to be an exciting year for Galway Arts Centre’s visual art programme. Despite funding cuts to the arts for five consecutive years, the Dominick Street gallery is still working with a superb mix of Irish and international artists in solo and group exhibitions. The visual art education programme is also reaching new levels with major projects for young people and older people in 2014.

Nine artists over nine consecutive days will create, destroy, and re-arrange artworks in 126, and the public will be able to see it unfold on-line and in the gallery.

Wild Harvest marks the 40th Production for Watergate Productions. It opens at the Watergate Theatre on Tuesday 22 March and runs until Saturday 26 March, with performances nightly at 8pm.

Watergate Productions celebrate their fortieth production when they take to the stage with the classic play Wild Harvest. It opens at the Watergate Theatre on Tuesday March 22 and runs until Saturday March 26, with performances nightly at 8pm.

Scratcher is a dark, satirical comedy set in a social welfare office on a gloomy Tuesday morning as six unemployed people slowly begin to transform into a revolutionary outfit bent on holding the country hostage. This is social warfare.

For the first time a theatre company will be taking up the post of Artists in Residence in Kilkenny Co Council Arts Office. Kilkenny group The Devious Theatre Company were delighted to be invited by Arts Officer Mary Butler to take up residency in the Arts Office. The group will be working in No 76 John Street until July.

IN THIS era of downloading and Youtube, the means of production have transferred from the record companies to ordinary people, raising questions over the relevance of copyright.

The penultimate leg of the Carlow Time Trial League took place last Tuesday evening on the Killleshin Hill course. Over 20 competitors took to the line for the race with Mick Mulcahy looking to tie up the overall honours in the league. There was also great competition in the veteran section with Will McDonald holding a slender lead over Mick McGrath and Tom Lucas not far back in third place. As the competitors lined up on the starting line, it was obvious that a great night of racing lay ahead with some of the best climbers around signed on for the event.