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A LANDMARK depiction of the gay community in the 1970s; the life of gay Muslims in Iran; and a new film by actor/director Patrick Wang; will be shown in the Out On Film strand at the Galway Film Fleadh.

The current owners of this home in Carnmore, Oranmore, are garden lovers, and this is evident from the gorgeous grounds surrounding the house.

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FLAMBOYANT FOLK band Mikey & The Scallywags will play the next Adventures in Music family concert this Sunday.

The LGBT helpline – the national support service for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people – has launched a nationwide volunteer recruitment drive. It is looking for members of the LGBT community in Mayo to contribute towards expanding the opening hours of the helpline, which is currently unable to meet demand for its services.

Eugene Daly was a 29-year-old weaver in Athlone Woollen Mills who decided to leave his job and go to America. He paid £6-19 for a third class ticket and boarded the Titanic at Queenstown. He was a piper and played native airs on board the tender on the way out to the liner. One of the survivors later sourly noted, “Looking astern from the boat deck, I often noticed how the third-class passengers were enjoying every minute of the time, a most uproarious skipping game of the mixed double was the great favourite whilst “in and out and roundabout” went a man with his bagpipes playing something that ‘faintly’ resembled an air.”

On April 3 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone Film Club screens the final film of their current season.

“Dear Frankie, I am in love with a lovely farmer twice my age, my parents don’t approve…” Mention the two words; Dear Frankie to anyone aged 40 or over in this country and something predictable happens. They start to sing the signature tune to Frankie Byrne’s iconic radio show, The Women’s Page. Tickets to this should could be an ideal Mothers Day gift and so far the audience for this show has consisted of three generations, with daughters, mothers and grandmothers all in attendance.

THIS MUST Be The Place, the English language debut of director Paolo Sorrentino, starring Sean Penn, will screen in The Eye Cinema on Thursday March 22 at 7pm.

THE GALWAY Film Society will screen two films over the coming week - one about a nervous new pope, the other about gender and identity in pre-teens.