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WHEN THE victorious All-Ireland Mayo football team won the Sam Maguire in 1951 they passed through Foxford on the journey home. However they failed to wait quietly for a funeral cortège to pass by.

THE ARTS festival has long had a flair for presenting shows in which artists from different backgrounds combine to fruitful effect, and Cover My Tracks, by playwright David Greig and singer-songwriter Charlie Fink, is very much in that tradition.

WHEN DID The Cure begin? Was it December 1976 when the band played their first gig? Was it 1972 when the original line-up, in their early teens, held a jam session? Or was it 1964, when seven-year-olds Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst sat beside each other on the bus to school?

AUTHORS, POETS, and dramatists - from Ireland, Canada, and the USA - will read from their work at the July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, next week.

WHAT WOULD it be like to live inside the head of Northern Irish comedian Paul Currie? It would be quite the trip considering his surrealist, wild, imagination has produced some of the most startling and original comedy of recent years.

MICHAEL SMILEY, the Irish actor who has performed in A Field In England, Doctor Who, Glassland, and who even appears in Star Wars: Rogue One, will give the Actors' Masterclass at this year's Galway Film Fleadh.

PAUL HEATON and Jacqui Abbot, the dream team vocalists of The Beautiful South and now a successful duo, have announced a Galway concert as part of their upcoming Irish tour in October.

Sharon Shannon has been announced as the main headline act as part of this year’s Crossmolina festival. The singer and accordion player will perform a concert in the Upper Deck on July 20th.

Following a recent revamping of the station, Claremorris Community Radio has announced details of recruitment on several fronts. The award-winning station was the recipient of two major awards at the 2017 Craol Achievement Awards event held at the Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, recently.

Community Radio in Castlebar will continue to broadcast for the next decade at least after CRC FM signed a new licence with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland recently.