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A host of tantalising performers have been lined up to entertain Carlow audiences this month as part of the annual bi-lingual festival Féile an Fhómhair.

Zhivago Music in Shop Street has reported a very positive response to its range of toys, which is available for the first time in the store.

DES BISHOP is about to release two new DVDs and he will be in HMV Galway on Sunday at 4pm to sign copies his new releases and meet the fans.

DES BISHOP is not comfortable with tags of being a ‘saviour’ of the Irish language, but there is no doubt that he is playing a major role in the language’s preservation and he is about to write his autobiography as Gaeilge.

Having spent 12 months in intense study and immersion in Connemara's Gaeltacht in an effort to speak as Gaeilge, Des Bishop is back on the road again. Drawing from his experiences, the star of the revolutionary RTE show In the Name of the Fada, comes to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, with his live stand up show Unbearlable.

Athlone Community Radio’s multicultural programme Across the Divide, produced and presented by Irena Cvetkovic, is shortlisted, along with RTE Radio 1 and NewsTalk 106, for an award with Metro Eireann Media and Multicultural Award (MAMA) in the Broadcast Media Section. The Awards ceremony will be held in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on November 27.

Athlone Community Radio attended the MAMA Awards in the Abbey Theatre Dublin last Thursday, November 27, after being shortlisted in the Broadcast Media Category for Irena Cvetkovic’s programme ‘Across the Divide’.

AS THE curtain comes down on one year, the Town Hall is already raising it for the New Year with the release of its programme details from January to March 2009. It’s a packed schedule of quality theatre, music, dance, and comedy with much to look forward to.

THE AMERICAN newspaper columnist and author Bill Vaughan once wrote about the Christmas and New Year period: “The optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

ONE OF Galway’s brightest young theatre companies, Moonfish, have teamed up with An Taibhdhearc to present a new staging of Namhaid don Phobal - an Irish-language version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People. The production will have English subtitles.