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GALWAY THEATREGOERS are in for a rare treat next week when Argentinean company La Compania bring their award-winning production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days to the Town Hall for one night only on Friday September 25.

The Headford Musical Society is holding a cake sale on Sunday September 20 from 12pm to 2pm to raise funds for the December 2009 season.

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me is a heartrendingly compassionate, tenderly tragic, but also sharply funny play, performed by Group X - comprising the first ever graduates from the MA in Directing for Theatre at UCD.

Paddy Hogan, brother of All-Ireland winner Richie, gave Kilkenny fans some consolation at the Bord Gáis Energy GAA Hurling U-21 All-Ireland Final when he won the half time crossbar challenge in front of over 25,000 fans at Croke Park, seeing off hurling star Joe Canning amongst others.

Lancia is part of the Fiat Group and will return to the Irish market early in 2010 when Lancia Delta and Ypsilon will be launched here.

Pat Cox, former president of the European Parliament, is to address a special public meeting in Kilkenny to discuss the implications of the Lisbon Treaty for Ireland.

GERARD STEMBRIDGE, the writer, film maker, and one of the key people behind Scrap Saturday, will attend The Eye Cinema on Monday for the screening of his new film Alarm.

A 30 year wait came to an end at Davitt College in Castlebar last Friday when work finally commenced on the school’s new sports hall.

Fáilte Ireland officially launched its newly-revitalised Yeats Passport Trail — which takes in three sites in south Galway — at an event at Sligo City Hall this week. The event coincided with the 70th anniversary of the death of William Butler Yeats on January 28 1939. The trail was officially launched by another Nobel laureate, the renowned poet Seamus Heaney.

Castlebar native Michael Murphy, author of At Five in the Afternoon, will sign copies of his book in Eason’s Castlebar on September 26 at 2pm and on the same day in Eason’s Ballina at 4pm. Murphy’s book is a superbly crafted memoir that speaks out unflinchingly about his fight against prostate cancer.