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OLIVER CROMWELL is a hugely divisive figure. In Ireland his opinion poll ratings remain even lower than those of soon-to-be-former president George W Bush and only slightly higher than those of that famous Austrian advocate of a very different type of European unity: the late Adolf Hitler.

X FACTOR winner and platinum selling artist Shayne Ward returns by popular demand to the Royal Theatre Castlebar for one night only on Monday December 29

DIDO HAS just released her new album Safe Trip Home (Sony BMG) and the Galway Advertiser has five copies to give away.

“The main trouble is there are too many people who don’t know where they’re going and they want to get there too fast.”  Sounds like a commentary on modern life particularly as we approach Christmas, but it’s actually a quote from the 1947 classic film The Bishop’s Wife, staring Cary Grant.

Terry Eagleton - Marxist, Christian, academic, literary critic, - and a provocative voice who relishes taking on those who disagree with him, is rightly regarded as one of the world’s foremost intellectuals.

WHEN DAVE Grohl was making Foo Fighters’ masterpiece Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace he had one thing in mind - to make an album that combined “Nomeansno with Odessey & Oracle”.

FROM MONDAY February 2 to Friday 7, Galway theatre-goers will get a rare chance to see works from the great writers, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, when two of their best-known plays, The Dumb Waiter and The Zoo Story are performed in the Town Hall Studio.

The Deans blues/rock trio from Galway are set to take the small stage (or area!) in Ryans by storm tonight Friday for a gig that will leave fans yearning for more.