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The Mitsubishi L200 has won ‘Pick Up of the Year’ in the United Kingdom’s Auto Express Awards for the third consecutive year, with the iconic truck retaining its crown at a prestigious ceremony in London last week.

SHEILAH MORRIS (now Cangley) was born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1928. Her father, who was born in Galway, had been recruited in London in 1920 to join the Veterinary Department of the Civil Service in Northern Rhodesia. He married a Galway girl, and they both moved to Mazabuka, where he worked at a veterinary research station. Now in her eighties and living in Australia, Sheilah recalls her childhood memories of Galway in the 1930s.

The inimitable and flamboyant Mr Pussy - the doyen of Ireland’s drag acts - was in Galway last weekend for a performance at the Róisín Dubh as part of Club GASS’s Galway Pride events. On Saturday afternoon I met him for a chat about his colourful life, career, and many celebrity fans.

FOLLOWING PREVIOUS family summer musicals like Seussical, The Sound of Music, and Peter Pan, Brian and Seán Power’s Twin Productions is continuing this tradition at the Town Hall Theatre with Disney's Aladdin jr - The Musical, based on the hit movie and Broadway smash.

POGUEOLOGY - A tribute to The Pogues, the seven-piece Laois based group celebrating the music and energy of the great London-Irish trad band with punk spirit, play Monroe's Live this week.

WITH THEIR Top 20 debut single 'XO', and follow-up single 'Catch', Cork quartet The Elation are no longer a secret, but a rising name in Irish rock, a trend that looks set to continue with their latest single.

The trumpet shall sound on November 18 in Knock with the Basilica’s inaugural performance of Handel’s Messiah, the world’s most famous and beloved oratorio, renowned for stunning choruses and arias. Following last year’s sell-out performance of the Concert for Peace, attended by the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and Sabina Higgins, Knock Basilica has announced the return of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to present Handel’s Messiah.

A book written by a Galway fitness trainer and former fitness model became a bestseller on Amazon, the online retail giant, within 24 hours of going on the market.

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED Irish singer-songwriter, producer Don Mescall, who has written songs for Lulu, The Backstreet Boys, and Frances Black, is coming to Galway this month to play Monroe's.

Celtic Flames present their spectacular show of music, song and dance in The Town Hall, Westport on Saturday, August 12 at 8pm. Celtic Flames is an exciting 24 piece mixed music group, based in Galway and ranging in ages from six to 60, who play and perform a quality eclectic mix of traditional Irish music, song and dance fused with a more contemporary idiom. Formed originally as a ten piece group in 2011, it has grown to include the top young talent to emerge from the west of Ireland in recent years and their mission is to entertain.