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MUSICIANS OFTEN say in advance of coming to your town to play a gig “Oh yes we’re really looking forward to playing there,” and no doubt it is a line they use to every journalist ahead of every town they play.

THE INSPIRED American Indie-folk band Port O’Brien play Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm, in what will be their second show in the Dominick Street venue.

 For the past week a lot of questions have been asked about this Sarah  Palin. And no, we don't mean ones like "Would you?” No, we're  thinking more along the lines of what Senator John McCain was thinking when he picked his running mate.

The Celtic Festival has kicked off in earnest this week and one of the highlights of this year’s event is the Lunasa concert which is taking place in the Watergate Theatre in Kilkenny tomorrow, Friday night.

Although celebrating its 70th birthday this year, Ó’Máille’s store in Galway’s High Street is nowhere near ready to pick up its pension.

“The way in which our natural gas resource was given away with no royalties negotiated for the people of Mayo is a sad reflection on our local body politic. It begs the question-where is the backbone of Mayo politics?” according to Labour representative Harry Barrett.

VAN PIERSZALOWSKI was born in California, but spent his summers on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where his father works as a commercial salmon fisherman.

No, I didn’t stay up to watch the election results, but, like most of the rest of the world I switched on my radio to get the results early on Wednesday morning.

If you were watching the nine o’clock news programme on RTE One last Sunday you’ll have seen some amazing footage of flocks of starlings flying above Belfast, swirling and swooping in the darkening skies, looking more liquid than solid, twisting and turning like ink dropped into water. Starlings’ habit of congregating in the evenings is most common in winter, and the flocks’ numbers swell substantially at this time of year, when birds from as far away as Russia visit Ireland. Some flocks have been estimated to number over a million birds. Despite the huge flocks that congregate not only in towns but also in rural areas, the common starling isn’t as common as it once was: in Britain it is now officially an endangered species, its population there having declined by over half in the last 25 years.

When the problems of Chad became a human rights issue, and the UN asked for Irish troops to help, the Government said yes.