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Music fans are in for a real treat this October Bank Holiday weekend with several acts appearing live at the Royal Theatre.

Renmore man Pat Creaven has just released his debut solo album, entitled Pat Creaven, which features the Galwayman’s version of a number of country and western classics.

Enda McManus from Athlone Institute of Technology was one of 10 chefs to battle it out in the 2012 Knorr Student Chef of the Year competition held in CIT this week.

What we know as Salthill Park was originally a large field with a small lake. It was landscaped in 1907. In 1925 the Salthill Development Organisation (SDO) asked the corporation to clean up a cesspool there, but that took some years. In 1924, three councillors, Mr Bailey, Eyre Square, Martin Cooke, and John Coogan, bought an aeroplane hangar for the urban council for £400. It had been used by the RAF in Oranmore and was re-erected it in the park. It was called the Pavilion Ballroom, but everyone knew it as ‘the Hangar’.

Kilkenny man Pat Hayes has teamed up with country legend Larry Cunningham for a night of country music at the Watergate Theatre this Saturday.

Only a month after the superb Rhythm and Roots Festival, Americana fans in Kilkenny will be spoiled all over again with the much-anticipated arrival in town of the Handsome Family.

The official biography of one of Irish showband music’s pioneers written by by a Galway journalist has soared up the book selling charts.

Roly Daniels and American Country Star Dee Reilly have released the hit album of the year Sweet Memories which has become the biggest selling Country album this year!