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If there was ever a time when business was business and the arts were — well, just messing around, enjoying oneself, it’s not now, and it’s certainly not in Galway.

SHE LIVES in LA, is “mildly in love” with Galway, but at heart she is a Southerner and a proud Alabamian who was inspired to become a comedienne - not by anything as predictable as another comedian - but by her Baptist preacher grandfather. She is Heather Le Roy.

Spiritualized stunned the music world in 1997 with their masterful combination of rock and symphony, Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, which was voted NME’s record of the year ahead of Radiohead’s OK Computer and The Verve’s Urban Hymns.

The Galway Arts Festival enjoyed its most successful year with this weeks festival breaking box office records and attendance figures significantly up from last year.

“I DON’T think of our band as a folk band - many of the other members would disagree with me - I think we’re a punk rock band,” O’Death bassist Jesse Newman, tells me over the phone from New York. “We know how to have a good time on stage and off.”

This Friday night the town hall theatre in Claremorris hosts one of the most successful plays to hit the stage in Mayo over the past decade as The Banshee of Crokey Hill – written and produced by Midwest Radio presenter Tommy Marren – has its final public performance after a 13-month tour that has seen the production play in Ireland, England and the United States.

Organisers will be able to start allocating tee off times for the FBD GAA Golf Challenge All-Ireland final from this weekend as the Connacht final takes place on Friday and the provincial stage of the competition draws to a close.

Roll up, roll up - the circus is coming to town! And we are offering readers ten pairs of free tickets to go along and see the show.

The lead drinking water crisis is the city’s second such crisis in a year. While we are told it is confined to specific areas, it is still a cause for concern because it has even more serious implications for public health than cryptosporidium.

Mayo’s own Henry Coyle will make his Irish debut as a professional boxer next month in Mayo when he appears on the under-card of Bernard Dunnes’s next fight. Coyle will take to the ring in Breaffy House Resort on November 15 on a bill that includes John O’Donnell, Stephen Haughian, Damien Taggart and the aforementioned Dunne.