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Ireland’s Kicking King, an initiative from Leader Kicking, comes to Dangan Sportsground on August 14 as they continue their search for potential American Football kickers in Ireland.

Connemara golfer Luke O’Neill claimed the Mullingar Scratch Trophy on Bank Holiday Monday.

Former professional rugby player Tadhg Leader is returning to his roots in the search for American Football Kicking talent in Ireland

The fight for the Frank Fox Trophy begins tomorrow with the opening round of this season's Galway senior club football championship.

Fresh from releasing her latest track ‘Blue is the Colour of Lonesome’ from her upcoming album titled ‘If Tomorrow’, internationally renowned flautist and singer, Steph Geremia will join an elite band of folk musicians at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, July 29 as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

John Murry decamped to Ireland a decade ago. Originally from Tupelo, Mississippi, he released his debut LP, The Graceless Age, on Rubyworks back in 2013 to ecstatic reviews.

An early date for your autumn season social diary as a six piece orchestral ensemble will grace the Tuar Ard Arts Centre stage in Moate on October 21, the sextet uniting to entertain the auditorium with The Ennio Morricone Experience.

Professional boxer Kid Johnson, an American light-weight champion, was touring Ireland in 1902. In January, while at the Town Hall in Castlebar, he sparred with Darkie Barton. The Boxing World & Mirror of Life announced that Barton, an 'old man' in boxing circles, held his own, and afterwards, the pair agreed to a formal match. In September 1901, Barton had been knocked out in one minute and five seconds by Henry Brown, Liverpool's 'coloured champion'. Browne had also disposed of Johnson in four rounds.

The Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize has been launched at the iconic south Galway tower house to mark the centenary of WB Yeats’ Nobel Prize for Literature.