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THE LANDSCAPE and towns of east Galway, and the science fiction of JG Ballard, have inspired a new album by the Galway musician, The Cube of Unknowing.

A new school building for Scoil Catriona in Renmore needs to be made into "a high priority" for the new Government, as the current school building is no longer "fit for purpose".

Annie and Duncan are a reasonably happy couple in their late thirties living in a seaside town in England. Duncan has an obsession - he hosts a fan page for nineties musician Tucker Crowe. Crowe is a kind of Jeff Buckley like singer who disappeared after recording one great album - Juliet, Naked.

It’s glamour and Glitz as Ballinderreen goes Strictly tomorrow Friday October 13 when it sees the culmination of many months of hard work by twenty brave dancers in the first ever Strictly Ballinderreen Gala Event.

MICHAEL LONGLEY, one of Northern Ireland’s foremost political poets, will read at the 40th Clifden Arts Festival, on a bill which also includes fellow poet Bernard O’ Donoghue, commonly referred to as the "nicest man in Oxford".

The hunt for elusive tickets for Sunday’s mouthwatering All-Ireland senior final has intensified in the last few days as fans clamour to be at what many expect to be the most attractively paired hurling final in years.

A new course - writing your spiritual autobiography - is starting on Friday October 4 at The Dancing Soul, Monksland.

THE TENTH Poems For Patience initiative will be launched tomorrow at 11am on the Arts Corridor, off the main foyer, of University Hospital Galway.

In order to raise funds for a local suicide prevention initiative, Knock Counselling Centre will host a Scottish Burns Supper at Café le Chéile, Knock Shrine on Friday January 18.

Most people who care about poetry, hearing the name Samuel Taylor Coleridge, will think immediately of that wonderfully strange masterpiece, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, a ‘Gothic’ tale of a vampire-like woman, or, perhaps, Kubla Khan, that “vision in a dream”, possibly induced by the poet’s growing addiction to opium, but which is, nonetheless, a perfectly finished work of art.