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IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.

IT IS 1988 and all eyes are on the western skies. Wide-eyed, wild yet innocent, they watch the jetstream trails over Brandon Mountain. Soon they will be up there on one of the planes bound for a new life across the Atlantic. Big dreams, work hard, get rich, and someday maybe...if things get better they will come back home again.

Global games giant, Electronic Arts, is to create 300 jobs at its European base in Galway, allowing the company to provide a multilingual international customer support and services for its major game titles such as the FIFA and Medal of Honour series.

Uachtaráin na hÉireann Michael D Higgins has led the tributes being paid to Mike Diskin, describing him as a “dear friend” whose death was a “huge loss to all those who worked in the arts, culture, theatre and performance on this island”.

Under-16 Roinn A Football final

Balmy sunshine, as it so often does, greeted the launch of Galway Arts Festival on Monday evening and a large crowd of artists and arts aficionados thronged the Radisson Hotel for the event.

The Arts Council, the Government agency responsible for funding and developing the arts in Ireland, met with Dáil deputies and members of Seanad Éireann at the council's office in Dublin to brief them on the arts in Ireland, on the work of the Arts Council and the activities of local arts organisations in constituencies around the country.

Seven organisations in Kilkenny will receive financial investments from the Arts Council, the Government agency for funding and developing the arts.

Along with providing ten days of superb entertainment for all the family, this year’s arts festival which has recently drawn to a close, has also lent a hand in boosting the local economy.

WEEK ONE of the Galway Arts Festival delivered some memorable productions from both home-based and visiting companies in plays that dealt with such diverse themes as familial neuroses, under-age sex, the Iraq war, murderous teenagers, and a property tycoon who wants to sing like Beniamino Gigli.