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From a giant mural on Clifden Town Hall and willow sculptures in a historic graveyard to a message sent towards the stars, the 49th Clifden Arts Festival is preparing to transform Clifden and Connemara into a vibrant stage for 11 extraordinary days of art, music, literature and ideas.

Alan Stivell, famous Breton Harpist, will be playing in Galway tomorrow Tuesday May 26 in St Nicholas Church and tickets are now on sale.

Galway Astronomy Club is to hold a talk at the Harbour Hotel next Monday November 5 (starting at 7.30) on the next generation of giant space telescopes being constructed around the globe.

Alien life, astrophotography, space law, rockets and robots are among the subjects being discussed at this weekend’s Galway Astrofest, the largest annual astronomy festival in the country.

What could you call one of the best years a local astronomical club had in recent times? A ‘cosmic’ year? A ‘galactic’ year? How about just another great year?

The Centre for Astronomy at the School of Physics in NUI Galway are the lead researchers and authors of a recent international study published this week in one of the world’s leading primary research journals in astronomy and astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).