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An Post has today launched a new Aran jumper stamp issue, celebrating a garment from the Aran Islands which is recognised worldwide as a staple of Irish identity.

Long before Aran island sweaters became a fashion statement being rocked by many celebrities such as Patrick Dempsey, Marilyn Monroe and Alexander McQueen; local fishermen and islanders would wear them in day-to-day life.

WARSAW RADIO have released their debut album, Midnight Broadcast, through Seventh Dial Records, and tonight, the Limerick band play upstairs at the Róisín Dubh.

A County Galway model, who moved to the United States five years ago and is a regular guest at Playboy boss Hugh Hefner’s Los Angeles mansion, has had her work visa extended for a further three years.

Patrick Kavanagh never spoke about poetry or literature to his friends. The Monaghan born poet and novelist, who grew up on a small farm, was more inclined to talk about everyday news, politics, Marilyn Monroe, horse racing, and goodlooking, rich women or medical students who caught his eye. And there were quite a few of these!

MARILYN MONROE and Molly Bloom will be celebrated in two new, one-woman, shows, at the Galway Theatre Festival. Galway actor Tara Breathnach’s Molly is a staging of Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy from Ulysses, while Marilyn Monroe Airlines: Always Late and Unreliable! features writer/performer Leonor Bethencourt in the comic persona of Marilyn-worshipping air hostess Zocorro.