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The Prince Bar are all ready for Halloween, with their Asylum open and always ready for new inmates.... why not commit yourself to  enjoying some refreshing cocktails, or a bottle of wine with friends, or pints while watching all the sporting action? You may never want to leave...  

Johnny Ward is certainly living the dream. The Galway born internet entrepreneur has made more than $1,000,000 over the past number of years, and is a passionate believer in being in charge of your own destiny and creating the life you want

The two day October Bank Holiday meeting kicks off on Sunday, October 25 with the first race at 1.30pm, and Bank Holiday Monday October 26 at 1.25pm.  There are 14 races, generously sponsored by many local firms over two great days of competitive National Hunt racing, with an impressive total prize fund of over €215,000 on offer which is sure to attract runners from many of Ireland’s top stables. The feature race on Sunday is “The Faber Audiovisuals Handicap Hurdle” and on Monday “The Ennis Lifts Handicap Steeplechase”.

Some 15,700 attended the 19th Baboró International Arts Festival for Children over the course of the week-long festival, which ended last Sunday. This year’s festival came with a promise to ‘do your heart good’ and the rich and varied programme made sure of that. With shows catering for babies right up to ages 15, this year’s festival featured beautifully imaginative and inspiring shows from Ireland as well as Canada, the Ukraine, Italy, Belgium, and Spain.

Mandatory Pensions on the Horizon?

THE WHILEAWAYS, the stunning folk trio of Noriana Kennedy, Nicola Joyce, and Noelie McDonnell, will launch their new album, Saltwater Kisses, with a concert in Monroe’s Live on Thursday October 29 at 8.30pm.

The HSE recruitment embargo of 2009 meant zero jobs for 1,500 nurses graduating in Ireland each year. They were instead forced to go overseas for jobs and further training. Top destinations in 2014/2015 have been the UK, Australia, USA and UAE (in particular, Dubai). The current nursing crisis is creating a high demand for nursing staff, in particular, those with additional specialised or sub-specialised training. The call is out. Nurses come home.

GOING STRONG for more than a quarter of a century, Zion Train have consistently delivered quality dub reggae, electronica, world, and dance music, as Galway will hear when they play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.

Most of us are mad jealous that we cannot claim some kind of connection with Caherlistrane. A new book by Mary J Murphy*  manages to link the north Galway parish with an extraordinary number of writers, artists, singers, poets, actors, and historical personalities, that leave all other parishes in Ireland bereft of personality and character. There can be no other competition. We are all characterless by comparison to Caherlistrane.