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Castlebar’s dedicated childrens arts festival, RoolaBoola, takes place this October bank holiday weekend and there is a jam packed programme of fun events planned to keep all of the family entertained.

Baboró International Arts Festival will be celebrating a big birthday when it kicks off this weekend. It is 18 years since the first festival in 1997, and Baboró continues to create unforgettable moments of awe and wonder for children and families in Galway and beyond.

On January 30, 1984 it is said that the whole of Dublin grieved the early death of Dubliner legend Luke Kelly, whose music is widely regarded as one of Ireland’s cultural treasures.

It was the year the bridge over the River Foyle was built, linking Lifford and Strabane. It was also the year Val Doonican released his single ‘Walk Tall’ and, most notably in Donegal, 1964 was the year that Margo (Margaret O’Donnell) sang her way to prominence in her native county and shortly afterwards into the hearts of a nation.

FOR A number of years Gort in south Galway, was known as ‘Little Brazil’ due to the numbers of Brazilians who were living there - and their stories are set to be retold in Stories Of A Yellow Town.

Tickets are now on sale for Jedward's live show in Castlebar this October.

A VARIETY of writers, working in different disciplines and styles, will read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Nuns Island Theatre on Friday September 12 at 8pm.

FLYING COWS, spiralling elves, a boy made of cheese, a singing monkey, spicy feet, and the most spectacular inflatable space imaginable - it’s all at the children’s arts festival, Baboró.

The newly revamped House of Hair salon in Moate is celebrating three years in business, and Breda Lyons and her team would like to thank all their loyal customers for their support over the years.

RIVERRUN, ONE of the most acclaimed and successful Galway International Arts Festival shows of recent times, is to be performed in Sydney, Australia, next year.