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Linley MacKenzie

Festival season in Galway is well underway with the AtlanTec Festival 2018, which runs through to 25 May. Now in its fourth year, the IT festival is organised by the IT Association Galway (ITAG). At the heart of the festival will be the international conference on 24 May, co-hosted by NUI Galway.

I am the parent of a child with a disability. Persons with disabilities have the same rights as everyone else, regardless of their age. Yet in England and Wales, 90 per cent of pregnancies where the unborn baby has Down syndrome are aborted. This is a tragic reality in our nearest neighbouring country.

Ballymaloe’s Myrtle Allen, CNN’s Culinary Journeys, Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio, AFAR Media USA, and Tourism Australia and partner Restaurant Australia have been announced as distinguished touRRoir 2018 Hall of Fame inductees at an event in Galway.

Galway WFC return to action on Sunday with the opening round of the 2018 Women's National League campaign.

In 2015, Irish people voted in a referendum to introduce same-sex marriage. The key messages of that campaign were equality, diversity and ending discrimination. Strange then, that just three years on, the people of Ireland are about to be asked to vote in a referendum that will render those three things meaningless.

During my 33 years, Galway has changed from a large town to a small city. But we haven’t done a good job of managing that change. Housing estate after housing estate has sprung up with little additional services in the form of public transport, cycle lanes, community centres or local businesses. Jobs were located in business and industrial parks far away from where people lived.

A feast of theatre and dance shows from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK and Ireland, made especially for babies and children, will take place in Galway from February 1-4. Wide Eyes, a one-off festival for the under six age group, features 15 new shows from Irish and international artists across 15 countries.

Athlone FIlm Club's season continues with Land of Mine on Tuesday, January 30 from 8pm.

Do you know that one in three people aged over 65 in Ireland have a significant or disabling hearing loss? Modern hearing aids provide a great solution. However, the cost of hearing aids in Ireland is often so high that most people cannot afford them.