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ANDY IRVINE, John and Pip Murphy, and the actor Patrick Bergin, are heading west for the 2018 Galway Sessions Festival, the city's annual celebration of traditional, folk, and roots music.

IT IS almost that time of the year again when tassles are twirled and booties are shaken in the joyously sexy jamboree of Galway Burlesque Festival. Now in its third year, this feast of frisky fun takes place from May 18 to 20 and, as ever, promises lots of teasing thrills and thrilling teases.

According to many, the story of the hot dog begins in America in 1902 during a Giants baseball game at the New York Polo grounds. It centres on an English man called Harry Stevens who on that cold April day was losing money trying to sell ice cream and ice-cold sodas. He wanted something that could be eaten out of the hand and would stay warm, and decided that German dachshund sausages wrapped in long buns worked best. Stevens called them 'red hots'. An American cartoonist who could not spell dachshund renamed them 'hot dogs'.

Let us begin with rugby news and results this last weekend, some good, some bad.

Since France, US and UK have joined forces to bomb the deadly chemical facilities in Syria.

Hit Galway band The Stunning rock up to the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday May 5 in what is certain to be a night of great entertainment.

By Charlie McBride

A conference dedicated to Ireland’s public sector will hear that digital transformation is advancing at pace with in-house marketing and communication staff embracing social media and digital communications.

A conference dedicated to Ireland’s public sector will hear that digital transformation is advancing at pace with in-house marketing and communication staff embracing social media and digital communications.

Ireland's Public Sector Showcased at Public Sector Digital Marketing Summit - In-house staff innovating in the Digital Age to benefit the public and other stakeholders - Thursday, June 14th, The Round Room at the Mansion House.