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Combined, the three musicians are a powerful force, harnessed by Sharon Shannon who recorded with the trio on her latest, upcoming album. She says that as soon as she heard them perform together, she wanted them involved.

As the hills turn gold and the air takes on the crisp promise of autumn, Ballyhoura invites you to lace up your boots, fill your lungs with fresh mountain air, and step into a weekend of outdoor adventure, music, and community spirit.

Using scaled models, bunraku and shadow puppetry, the Blue Raincoat Theatre will perform The Last Pearl at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday, February 13 and Friday, February 14.

Following the announcement this week that the Electoral Commission recommends the Mayo constituency be changed from a four-seater to a five-seater and that south mayo areas added to the Galway west Dáil constituency be returned to the Mayo Dáil constituency - reaction was swift from some political quarters around Mayo.

By the end of January 1923 the Irish Free State had executed 34 anti-Treaty republican prisoners. To put this figure into context, the British authorities executed 24 Irish prisoners between November 1920 and June 1921 during the War of Independence. The fledgling Irish Free State was determined to put-down the rebellion by a small but deadly anti-Treaty force, led with fierce determination, by Liam Lynch.

Four students representing the Galway International Hotel School at the GMIT have been selected as the outright winners of the 37th Irish Hospitality Institute National Hospitality Business Management Game 2022.

IARLA Ó LIONÁIRD, Steve Cooney, Máirtín O’Connor, and Matt Molloy - titans of Irish traditional music - will give concerts at Stiúideo Cuan, County Galway’s new flagship creative centre.

This week Roscommon Arts Centre’s mini-Spring season proceeds with a new virtual programme of free engagements for the public to enjoy.

Renowned Roscommon flute player, Patsy Hanly, hosts an evening of “socially-distanced” music and stories at Roscommon Arts Centre with his guests John Carty and seanachai Vincent Pierse, on Thursday, August 28.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American writer, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Among many achievements, he is credited with the saying “travel broadens the mind”. But something we have learned in recent weeks during this Covid-19 ‘lock in’ is that sometimes staying at home can do that too, or at least it can help refocus the mind.