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LIAM Ó MAONLAÍ is coming back to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday at 8pm where he will perform songs from his new album To Be Touched.

Saving J, a local pop/rock band have been enjoying monumental success recently and the group is guaranteed to progress further in the industry if recent press is anything to go on.

It was a very smart move by Eamon Gilmore to declare himself as a contender for the position of taoiseach. This caught Fine Gael on the hop and led to the largest surge in the opinion polls that Labour has ever had.

Almost 1,000 delegates are expected at the Labour Party 2009 annual conference which will be held in the Mullingar Park Hotel on the last weekend in March.

Extra extra, read all about it, the Republic of Loose are playing in Kytelers on December 4.

IT IS a fact, but an often overlooked one, that an Irishman invented the submarine. John Philip Holland, from Co Clare, was a noviciate Christian Brother who, while in Dundalk, came up with the idea of the submergible craft.

THE RECESSION is biting hard. Many have lost their jobs or have been forced to take pay cuts. The Government, for so long in denial about the economic downturn, is threatening savage cutbacks in the upcoming Budget, and industrial unrest looks certain.

OSCAR WILDE’S comic masterpiece, The Importance Of Being Earnest, will be performed by The Seamas O’Kelly Players in the Temperance Hall, Loughrea, today, Saturday, and Sunday at 8.30pm.

WAVERIDERS, a new Irish film telling the untold story of surfing pioneers all linked to Ireland, will be released on April 3.

THE CRANE Bar will host a double album launch from musicians Claire Keville and Kathleen Loughnane on Saturday at 6.30pm.