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SINCE THE 1700s, when a Syrian storyteller told the tale of Aladdin and His Magic Lamp to French writer Antoine Galland, the story has enchanted and delighted generations the world over.

TIME IS running out to register for free tickets to the Jagermeister Freezer Sessions, featuring O Emperor, The Hot Sprockets, Raglans, and Preacher’s Son, at Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm.

THE ORIGINAL Rudeboys, O Emperor, and Kíla’s Rónán Ó Snodaigh will be playing Monroe’s Live over the coming weeks.

O EMPEROR will headline the Hotpress Jägermeister Freezer Sessions at Monroe’s Live on Friday November 29.

The wait is over, Helium festival and fundraiser is finally here!

WRITER/PERFORMER Donal O’Kelly comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week with a double bill of plays, Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son, on Monday May 13 and Ailliliú Fionnuala on Tuesday 14.

One of the most successful Irish bands ever, The Stunning are set to steal the show at Helium 2013. The multi-award winning Helium Festival is delighted to confirm that The Stunning will indeed headline the 2013 festival in Ballymahon on June 8.

IN BALLINASLOE train station two men sit and wait. One is Jude, a London-Irishman who has been involved in wild adventures and outrageous scrapes. Beside him sits a man who may well be his match.

Back in 1997, when the Internet was beginning to change our lives in ways we never could have guessed, the media-savvy John Paul II decided this new invention needed a patron saint. For the honour, he chose Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636), a Doctor of the Church, and the last of those formidable scholars who salvaged what they could of the culture of the dying Roman Empire.

It was reading Owen Barfield’s History in English Words many years ago that first made me realise words are like the artefacts – the shards of shattered pottery, the unearthed house foundations, or the elaborate tombs filled with grave goods - the archaeologist uses to reconstruct the past. Or, as Barfield put it: