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Eight years after Peter Morgan's play Frost Nixon opened in London, next week Irish theatregoers will have their first chance to see one of the great dramatic pieces of the last decade when Cairde Mol brings the play to the Town Hall.

The world renowned Geshe Michael Roach is to give two seminars and lead a yoga workshop during a trip to Galway next month.

US President, Barack Obama, has been formally invited to visit Callan where he is being encouraged to view various landmarks, chief among them the homestead of James Hoban, the architect who designed the White House.

We now live in an age of cutbacks, economic austerity and diminished financial reward. We are told that we are all in this together and that we are all feeling the pain. That some people will not feel the financial pain to the same degree as others is a fact of life. Some of these are the very highly paid, such as senior executives from some of the larger companies who will take home huge salaries. They will take home these salaries if and only if they do their jobs effectively, generate acceptable results and display high levels of competence. If not they will be fired. That is the way the real world works.

People take their music very seriously, as I‘ve found out over the years.

Former US President Bill Clinton will be honoured by NUI Galway tonight when he is guest of honour at a function for the college being held in New York.

Galway Africans will be making their way to the US Embassy in Dublin to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

Two events will be held in the city and county next week to mark the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American to become president of the United States.

NUI Galway has been named University of the Year 2009 in the Sunday Times University Guide, securing the prestigious accolade for a second time. Outperforming 21 other third-level institutions, NUI Galway’s strong record in graduate employability, research commercialisation, and this year’s 11 per cent increase in CAO applications were among the reasons for the award.