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(Week II)

ADRIAN CROWLEY is originally from Bearna and moved to Dublin in the early 1990s. For years he quietly worked away at this music, but now he stands on the cusp of great things.

A Galway county councillor has hit out at Government plans to introduce a Social Housing Leasing Iniative which has been described as “grossly unfair”.

Kilkenny children are illustrating their writing and language skills in a unique new project that was hosted in Kilkenny which saw the students publish their own books.

Mayor Malcolm Noonan this week offered his sympathies on behalf of Kilkenny Borough Council to Nessa Childers Labour Party MEP on the death of her mother Rita Childers this week.

A local Fine Gael senator wants the legislation dealing with registering the deaths of Irish people abroad to be amended so that Irish citizens who die overseas can have their deaths registered at home.

In Mexico City there stands a monument to a group of Irish and German soldiers who fought and died in the brutal Mexican-American war of 1846-1848.

In Mexico in the 1840s, Clifden man John Reilly led a band of Irish soldiers called The San Patricios, in an effort to help Mexico repulse a military invasion by the USA.

NEW IRISH movie, A Film With Me In It, starring Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, David Doherty, Keith Allen and Amy Huberman, will open in the Omniplex and The Eye on Friday October 17.