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With two beer gardens, a host of live music and sport and a range of premium Irish whiskeys, The Snug Bar is the ideal venue to kick back and have a good time.

Pat Lam is preparing his league-leading squad for a physically demanding encounter against fellow play-off hopefuls Edinburgh in Murrayfield tomorrow (7.35pm).

GALWAY SINGER Mary McPartlan has just released a terrific new album entitled From Mountain To Mountain a tribute to the late legendary American folk song collector and singer Jean Ritchie.

Last year the Knock Marriage Introduction Service celebrated its 48th year of introducing people and it had 215 applications from all over the country and the UK to the service. The service, which is Ireland's oldest dating agency, started in 1968, claims to have 930 marriages over the the past 48 years and last year it had five marriages and three engagements from people who met through the service.

STRAIGHT UP melodic country-rock, with a twist of folk, and a dash of Americana is what Galway can expect when award winning Scottish singer-songwriter Colin Clyne plays Monroe's Live on Wednesday February 24.

LITTLE JOHN Nee presents his new show Talking Derry Boat, at the Town Hall Theatre studio tomorrow and Saturday, in what is the first of three shows at the venue, the others being The Church of Chill in March and Ribbons, a collaboration with Laura Sheeran, in April.

Eddi Reader, one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers, returns to the Town Hall Theatre next month. Having first hit the limelight in the 1980s with Fairground Attraction, Reader’s subsequent solo albums, most recently 2014’s warm and deeply personal Vagabond, have cemented her image as a powerful figure in British music with beautifully raw vocals and an unparalleled romanticism.

He founded The Capitol Showband that scored a number of firsts for Irish bands at home and abroad. He discovered songwriting legend Phil Coulter, he set visionary trad band Planxty on the road to success, he is Des Kelly.

IT ARRIVED last September with a name people thought was a typo, but as soon as they said it out loud, the penny dropped, and it made perfect, quirkily comedic, sense. Since then it has been onwards and upwards for the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

117 companies from the Irish fishing industry will exhibit at at Skipper Expo Int at the Galway Bay Hotel on 4 and 5 March.