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A city primary school was the only school in the Galway West region selected to take part in a pilot literacy summer programme.

The Athlone man who pleaded guilty to two counts of threatening to kill or seriously harm the sister of murdered Limerick man Roy Collins, has been jailed for two years, with the final six months suspended.

There was shock and praise in equal measures at the end of Monday’s meeting of Athlone Town Council when town clerk John Walsh announced he had presided over his final council meeting.

TERRY REID could have been the lead singer in Led Zeppelin. Richie Blackmore wanted him to be Deep Purple’s frontman. Both incidents have gone down in legend to cast Terry as rock’s ‘great nearly man...’, but to think this way is to forget that Terry Reid has always been his own man.

There is black and white footage of Jimi Hendrix playing a violin, not with a bow, but just plucking it like a guitar, experimenting with it. The young Galway based musician Daithí Ó Drónaí uses his violin to play trad and left-field indie pop. Stéphane Grappelli was as comfortable playing with Paul Simon and Frankie Gavin as he was playing jazz.

21 OUTS will launch their debut album Maybe I’ll Have Yours upstairs at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday at 9pm.

The money collected at the tolling booth on fair days in Callan in the first half of the twentieth century went towards funding the many important services administered by the Town Commissioners.

The Hired Man represents a brave move for Kilkenny Musical Society (KMS) whose last four productions have been evergreen favourites, but

Michael Carr is a blue chip Clarenbridge hurling man. He started playing for the club at 11 years of age and he has held most, if not all, roles within the club since then - from team manager at all levels to various officer positions in the club over the past 40 years.

To say the Galway West count centre in Leisureland was an epic drama which made War And Peace and The Lord Of The Rings look like minimalist short stories is an understatement.