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Westport will be bustling full of festival revellers this weekend as the Westport Festival of Music and Food will take place in the grounds of Westport House on Saturday and Sunday.

By Cian O’Connell

SINCE HIS appearances on Nighthawks in the early 1990s, Kevin McAleer has enjoyed the status of a founding father of modern Irish stand-up and a a much loved comic.

SINCE HIS appearances on Nighthawks in the early 1990s, Kevin McAleer has enjoyed the status of a founding father of modern Irish stand-up and a a much loved comic.

HERMITAGE GREEN are not only rugby fans who play folk-rock but their vocalist Barry Murphy formerly played for Munster and Ireland.

It has been six years since comedian Pat Shortt first introduced us to the character of showband singer Dixie Walsh with the song ‘Jumbo Breakfast Roll’. The song took the Irish charts by storm, staying at Number One for six weeks and went on to be the best-selling Irish single of 2006. It also instantly established Dixie Walsh as one of Shortt’s best-loved creations from his wide array of comic characters.

HOW CAN stand-up comedy be performed by a man with tape stuck across his mouth rendering him incapable to speech?

Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O’Hanlon, Pat Shortt, Des Bishop, Reginald D Hunter, and Rich Hall are coming to Galway this October Bank Holiday Weekend for the Bulmer’s Pear Galway Comedy Festival.

DUBLIN ROCKERS The Shoos play Upstairs @ Halo tonight, where they will perform songs from their forthcoming debut album.

GALWAY WILL be able to watch the final of what has been a terrific - from a soccer, if not from a strictly Irish, point of view - Euro 2012, in the company of none other than Après Match.