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Following the screening of their fly-on-the wall documentary by young film-maker Greta Thornton, Galway band The Opacas are set to play their melodic, harmony driven, power pop at Monroe’s Live on Friday, May 26 at 8pm, where they will launch their latest single, ‘Shine On’.

GALWAY BAND THE OPACAS began life as a virtual band during the lockdowns. Post-Covid, they are taking to the stage, and presenting live music shows with a real difference.

‘Definitely, I am a Galway girl, very much so, I’m from Barna’, Claire Hanna MP replies when asked where exactly she is from. Claire was on one of her regular visits from her home in Belfast to her birthplace in Barna, Co. Galway, when we sat down last week to discuss her journey from rural county Galway to the House of Commons in Westminster.

Athlone Deputy Mayor, Cllr Aengus O’Rourke, has welcomed a lighting display planned for the white bridge this weekend to mark World Remembrance Day for road traffic victims.

University Hospital Galway will mark International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day tomorrow (Friday) with a special remembrance ceremony.

THE OPACAS, the virtual band featuring members from Galway and Leeds released their second single, 'She Walks Away', along with a video featuring an array of local acting talent.

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day will be marked in Galway with the screening of the documentary, Anne Frank: Parallel Stories, in The Eye Cinema, from Monday January 27.

Since becoming the 2018 Galway Rose, it can easily be said that my life has been turned upside-down. I have been taken on the most incredible rollercoaster ride, a once in a lifetime experience. On the face of it, it can often be perceived as a year of fancy dresses and glamour. But there is so much more to it than what meets the eye.

‘FINEST FLOWER’, a tribute to the women and children who survived mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, is the new single from Dublin singer-songwriter Ciara Sidine, and will raise funds for the Tuam Home Survivors Network.

Last Saturday in Athlone, some 50 families from across the country, including Northern Ireland, came together to remember and commemorate the life of their son, daughter, brother or sister who had died.