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Fresh from its launch at the Galway Film Fleadh, a documentary on the professional life of lawyer and Ireland’s first female head of state, Mary Robinson, will go on general release on Friday, August 23.

University of Galway has launched its inaugural Nelson Mandela Anti-Racism Week.

South Africa is one of the most diverse and interesting countries in the world — rich in natural beauty, wildlife and sunshine, it has something for everyone and is really back on the travel map.

If you are looking for Christmas gift ideas or an escape to the sun, now is the time to start planning a winter sun holiday. The advice from Fahy Travel is, as always, to book as soon as possible.

Now that the children are back to school, it is time to start planning some winter sun holidays. The advice from Corrib Travel is, as always, book as soon as possible.

GALWAY GIG-goers are in for a real treat next week when the London African Gospel Choir brings its acclaimed staging of Paul Simon’s classic album Graceland to Leisureland, Salthill.

It has always been one of my great regrets that I never went to work as a teacher in South America or Africa or as we used to say when I was young “go on the missions”. So when the opportunity presented itself earlier this year I decided now is the time.

THE PROBLEM some people have with Danny Morrison’s novels is that, throughout them, he commits the heinous crime of knowing what he’s talking about. Had he been a US soldier returned from Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan, it would be perfectly acceptable for him to write about his war.

An Honorary Doctorate will be conferred on Rahm Emanuel, the Mayor of Chicago and a former White House Chief of Staff in the Obama administration, at a ceremony in NUI Galway on Tuesday April 3.

STRIKING BACK - The Untold Story of an Anti-Apartheid Striker by Mary Manning, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop at 6.30pm this evening.