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The daring, improvisational, guitar sounds of Galway’s The Brno Chairs - led by songwriter and guitarist Bushy (aka Kenneth Coyne) - are at De Burgo’s on Monday December 22 at 9pm.

A new course of night classes in creative writing will commence in GMIT Castlebar for the spring. The course runs one night a week for 12 weeks and each class lasts two hours. The classes will suit beginners and improvers.

A Kilkenny craftsperson, Anne Ryan McGree of Ní Rí Design, will be representing the county at the Showcase Expo in Dublin this month, meeting thousands of international buyers from across Europe, North America and Asia.

Prior to his imminent trade mission with the Taoiseach to Japan this weekend, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise and Trade John Mc Guinness took some time out to discuss the Irish economy, the public sector, Beverley Cooper Flynn, local elections, local government and more with the Kilkenny Advertiser.

Kilkenny is on the verge of losing its most controversial whole sale outlet.

Leisureland is set to be transformed into an exciting fighting area when Wrestlemania rolls into town bringing with it muscle-bound superstars from across the globe including Goliath ‘The Beast’ from Sky TV’s Gladiators series.

MOST PEOPLE have heard of the Japanese form of poetry known as haiku, but tanka is a much older form, and Galway will get to experience it on Saturday.

Dublin group The Bastard Rain come to Bar Ritz next Saturday night February 28 as part of the Finbar Hoban Presents series with support from Green Lights (last ever show) plus Vamos from Galway will be performing a DJ set in between the live entertainment.

Last Saturday night Green Lights and The Bastard Rain plus support from Kudoose bought an evening of excellent live entertainment To Bar Ritz (Mulroys Bar) Castlebar. At 9.30pm local group Kudose took to the stage playing acoustic versions of Jose Gonzalez’s take on The Knifes’ version ‘Heartbeats’ right through to The Stone Roses’ ‘Waterfall’.

The global launch of the all-new Nissan NV200 van took place at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month. The company announced that this model will be  produced for Europe in Barcelona, beginning late this year.