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GALWAY ARTS Centre will take to the skiess next week with an aeronautical extravaganza children’s workshop. Filled with birds, butterflies, spaceships, angels, fairies, mythical creatures, monsters and anything else that can be scattered by the four winds and the imagination.

Clifden Community Arts Week, the west of Ireland’s most prominent and longest running community arts festival, will return this September for its 34th year of artistic celebration. Taking place from September 15 to 25, the festival boasts an impressive line up of national and international talent with a jam-packed programme that covers all spectrums of the arts from literature and music to theatre, film, and comedy, as well as inspirational talks and lectures and a dedicated schools’ programme.

The new president of Galway Rotary is a movie and TV producer who co-produced the Jack Taylor series of crime films being shot around Galway.

A Union of Students in Ireland grant information evening, organised in conjunction with GMIT and NUIG students’ unions, will take place in Galway next week.

To celebrate Ireland’s success in developing sustainable energy sources, An Post has printed 50,000 stamps focusing on this technology — and they have chosen Galway photographer Neil Warner to shoot the image.

On Friday September 23 Ireland will host Sea2Sky, its first European Researchers’ Night, in Salthill, Galway. This one day celebration of science in inner and outer space is being organised by NUI Galway in collaboration with the Marine Institute and Galway Atlantaquaria, and is funded under the European Union’s Marie Curie Programme and Discover Science and Engineering.

Much has been written and broadcast over the past week on the impasse between the City Council and the organisers of the now-cancelled Galway City Marathon, which was due to take place at the end of this month and draw a vast number of runners to the the city. However, among the most hurtful barbs thrown was the allegation by former mayor Michael Crowe that the organisers did not honour a commitment to donate marathon funds to sporting clubs and athletes in the city which has been angrily rejected by the organisers and proven to be untrue.

The Galway City Fairtrade Committee will carry out a survey over the coming weeks to assess people’s knowledge of fair trade and examine whether attitudes to fair trade have changed since the last survey, which took place five years ago.

Gardaí have appealed to the public for information on several burglaries which have taken place around Galway this month.

It may have taken a bit of luck at the death and Gerard O’Donoghue’s very late strike for the equalising goal was to quote his manager a bit “dithery”, but the Galway minors deserve credit for their doggedness and perseverance in sticking to their guns and keeping plugging away to eke out a draw in normal time.