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A Claregalway school was last night thanking its lucky stars after serious injuries were averted when a 20-ton juggernaut left the road and ploughed into the schoolgrounds just as infants were being collected after school.

The sixth annual Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend will take place on Achill Island from April 30 to May 2.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

IT IS 1980 and summer in Dublin. It should be a time of fun for a spiky 10-year old girl, but instead of playing outside she has to play mother to her Ma and her brothers.

Dreamstuff Youth Theatre has staged more than 100 plays in the Watergate Theatre (well, actually 18, but who’s counting?) since they were founded in 2001AD. Now they’re back with their 101st production (or 19th production, depending on which calendar you’re using) called The Mouse That Roared and it’s almost the funniest play ever staged in the Watergate.

After crossing the globe over years through film, song, television stage shows, and theme parks the magic of Disney is about to finally land in Castlebar when Disney Live! Presents Three Classic Fairy Tales takes over the Royal Theatre this weekend. The Disney magic which has touched so many young and old for decades was very much on show in Liverpool when this writer saw the show, turning the cavernous Echo Arena into one a magical land of fairy princesses, wicked witches, and heroic deeds by princes. The three classic tales of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast had the very young and very old alike captivated by the magical stage show as well as humming and singing along with the classic songs that pepper the show. While many of the younger members in attendance joined in on the fun acting out their favourite parts of the stories in the aisles as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy narrated the story from their enchanted story book, while interacting with the crowd from start to finish.

NOVELIST, LYRICIST, singer, poet, raconteur, entertainer, and genuine colourful character, Julian Gough deserves the title Galway indie Renaissance man.

According to Aristotle, “All men by nature desire to know.” There is in us an unquenchable urge to understand this world in which we live and move and have our being. And, correlatively, there is the human quest, the self-reflective journey to discover what part each of us plays in the drama of existence.

JOYCE CAROL Oates, one of the most distinguished American novelists of the last 50 years will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature on Saturday April 24.

TWO OF Ireland’s leading contemporary writers - Michael Longley and Jennifer Johnston - will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature later this month.