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The Irish Pub is a celebration of the greatest institution in Irish society, the pub, or more specifically the pub owners. Athlone Film Club will be starting its new season this September with a documentary on something very dear to us all - the pub.

In 1969 the owner of Westwide Panel Beating, John Lally, started his apprenticeship in Galway.

THE HILARIOUS Who Needs Enemies? series returns to the Town Hall Theatre stage for it’s seasonal instalment, A Christmas Tale, next week.

On January 21 2012, my dear brother Eamonn suddenly and unexpectedly passed on to join St Peters Heavenly Band. Eamonn was born in Grealishtown beside the new cemetery where he now rests.

FRESH FROM a Buddhist retreat in the Himalayas, Eoin Hancock returns to Galway to draw a line in the sand, and escape from his self-indulgent lifestyle and party animal friends.

It is told that the then Nan Denning was in a world of her own, singing away as she made her way down McHale Road, Castlebar, at the ripe old age of 14, when she was overheard by Tony O’Grady from Manulla. He enquired if Nan would sing in his band which comprised John Lally on saxophone, Toddy Buckley from Knockthomas on drums, Gerald Ralph from Moneen on drums, and Tony himself on accordion. Nan’s first gig was at the Eclipse Ballroom in Ballyhaunis with her opening number “Buttons & Bows”. From there started a long and talented singing career which brought Nan from the dance halls of Mayo to the Castlebar pantomime stage.

EOIN HANCOCK just wants break. He wants to clean up his act, detox himself, put his dissolute past behind him, and live a healthier, simpler, life. Some hope when your friends are pot heads, boozers, and hell raisers.

AMONG THE attractions at next week’s Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival is the comic play Who Needs Enemies? by Galway author Conor Montague.

Athlone Film Club’s successful season continues with the news that the club has been awarded Shannonside Radio’s Arts and Entertainment Award for January 2010. This has been awarded in recognition of the club’s contribution to the arts in the Midlands.