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It's midday Monday. Outside, the sun kisses the green grass of the Quad at the University of Galway. There is a sense of calm before the storm here. A whiff of change in the air.

This weekend Monroe’s will host a selection of exceptional music including the best of 00s indie rock, contemporary Irish folk, and a fusion of Irish and American traditions at its Westend venue.

Transatlantic duo Lorkin O’Reilly and Jonny Pickett bring together Irish folk and American old-time music as part of their collaboration, DUG, on Friday, September 6th at Monroe’s Live.

The final weekend of the Galway International Arts Festival at Monroe’s Live promises to be an exciting one with Teddy Thompson, Gruff Rhys, George Murphy and The Rising Sons and Tara Howley performing from today, Thursday, July 25, to this Sunday, July 28.

Kennys.ie, the website of Kennys Bookshop and Art Gallery in Galway, is celebrating 30 years online. Set up in mid-1994, it was Ireland’s first e-commerce website and among the first retail websites in the world.

Galway native, Brian McManus, has become the first Irish person to receive a Space Pioneer Award from the US National Space Society (NSS), at the organisation’s International Space Development conference which took place in Los Angeles, California last week.

There are some books which strike a note because of a certain familiarity — in this case, the author and I are the same age, so his memories are often my memories — reminiscences that bring you to a place and time that stay in your heart forever.

The 16th annual Film Fest Petaluma in California will showcase a diverse selection of short films from 14 countries, including Ireland. One of the standout entries from over 1,000 submissions is the Irish language short film ‘Scríofa sna Réaltaí / Written in the Stars’, directed by Vincent Gallagher and produced by Sin É Films.

Frank Fahy is a native of Menlo, on the outskirts of Galway City. He is a fluent Irish speaker. Frank has been a widower since 2021 and he has three grown-up children.

Neuroscientists at the University of Galway have made an exciting discovery that could revolutionise stem cell-based brain repair therapy for Parkinson’s disease.