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A special concert will take place in Oughterard as a result of a request in a local man’s will.

When the smoke cleared at the Sabine Pass on September 8 1863, a narrow channel on the border between Texas and Louisiana, two Union ships, the USS Clifton and the USS Sachem, had their steam engines blown out. They had beached on the shallows, and had signalled their surrender. The remaining invasion fleet, and its 5,000 troops, had made a hasty retreat, giving an incredible victory to the 43 Irishmen at Fort Griffin.

Ford tells us the Focus continues to be the best-selling vehicle nameplate in the world, based on its analysis of the just-released and latest Polk global vehicle registration data through the third quarter of 2013.

A GREAT night of song is in store for Galway when The Three Tenors return to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday January 25 at 8pm.

NEW GALWAY theatre company ThereisBear! will stage the Pulitzer prize winning play Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, who also wrote the screenplay of Lincoln.

THE THREE Tenors, “the most delicious box of chocolates your ears could ever have,” according to The New York Times, are coming back to Galway.

A transition year student at Ballinrobe Community School

THE THREE Tenors are coming back to Galway to perform an eve of St Patrick’s Day concert Saturday March 16 at 8.30pm in the Hotel Meyrick, Eyre Square.

In an Ireland in which the only colours were black and white, when even the sunshine seemed a distant grey, hope was a rare commodity. And for those who were robbed of their innocence by circumstance and robbed of their freedom by a lack of compassion, days like this week must have seemed a million years away. When life seems on the verge of beating you down, you fall back on family, friends, beliefs, and authority figures.

Uachtarán Na hEireann; Mrs Mary McAleese is coming to the end of her second term as president and must retire from her position. So we are faced with a hugely expensive presidential election next year most likely to decide between a motley collection of over the hill self-important windbags from various parties. In the past we have generally been presented with a list of political candidates run primarily to gain political bragging rights.