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Mountaineer and broadcaster Dermot Somers will launch his new book, Uncommon Ground: Adventures with Outsiders in Remarkable Terrain in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway on Friday, November 22.

When Sabina Higgins welcomes you into her private office before a long-scheduled interview, immaculately turned out in an azure, roll-neck woollen dress with anti-war and global sustainability badges pinned to her shoulder, you know she means business.

I have always been fascinated by maps, especially old maps. One of the most famous is the Tube map - better known as the London Underground map - a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground, known colloquially as "the Tube", hence the map's name.

The Lausanne Conference of July 1932, attended by the former allied powers of World War I (Britain, France, Belgium and Italy), and Germany, accepted that the world economic crisis made continued reparations by Germany virtually impossible. Various long-term arrangements were made, but in effect it allowed Germany off the hook for the monetary compensation it had agreed to pay for its responsibility in starting the war. Germany was now free to rebuild its own economy. This was a very importance conference attended by the world press, among whom was Clare Sheridan.

For most people, retirement brings thoughts of putting one’s feet up and forgetting the stresses and strains of work. Not so retired rugby player Damian Browne. Since hanging up his boots four years ago the Galwayman has taken on a series of extreme endurance challenges that make the bruising world of professional rugby seem like a walk in the park.

THE LAST time I saw Morgan Creative in action was with its imaginative staging of Crime and Punishment at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre eight months ago. This week the company returned to the Mick Lally Theatre for the Galway Theatre Festival with another a literary classic - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

They may earn an average salary of about £2.4m a year, but the most popular car for a premiership footballer is the Range Rover Evoque, a compact SUV which costs from £30,000 (or €42,000 here for the five-door).

They may earn an average salary of about Stg £2.4m a year, but the most popular car for a premiership footballer is the Range Rover Evoque, a compact SUV which costs from £30,000 (or €42,000 here for the five-door).

Internationally renowned photographer, Michal Dzikowski, better known as Michal Clearskies Ahead, whose work has been published by National Geographic and The Guardian, will be the guest speaker at the Headford Camera Club's upcoming open night.

Ireland rugby coach Joe Schmidt will be the special guest at a dinner hosted by former Connacht Rugby star Damian Browne to raise funds for his Atlantic Challenge chosen charities.