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MR SCRUFF, the British DJ, producer, cartoonist, and tea connoisseur, will play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh.

The co-ordinator of an education and training centre for early school leavers in the city is urging young people to view education as the key to surviving the recession.

Mayo and Manchester have joined forces to promote tourism in the west of Ireland. The marketing team behind Mayo County Council’s diaspora website: www.mayo.ie have joined forces with Lawrence Hennigan from the Manchester Mayo Tourism and Business group, and the marketing manager of www.manchesteririshfestival.co.uk. Hennigan, whose parents come from Attymass parish, just outside Ballina, said: “We are staging a Manchester-Mayo weekend to officially launch our group at the festival, and a whole series of Mayo events will be taking place to promote all things Mayo in Manchester.”

Kilkenny passengers flying from Waterford Airport can now book a flight to Paris (CDG), Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, and Glasgow with through connections via Birmingham with Flybe.

All roads will lead to The Palace nightclub at the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore this Saturday night January 28, when Coronation Street actresses Brooke Vincent and Sacha Parkinson, who play Sophie Webster and Sian Powers, will be the latest British soap stars to appear at The Palace nightclub in the Bridgehouse Hotel .

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has this week announced a new service flying three times a week between Ireland West Airport Knock and Leeds Bradford Airport in the UK. The new route will commence on March 25 and will run on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. This will be the third addition to Flybe’s route network at the airport following the introduction of new services to Edinburgh and Manchester last year.

“We must seek to build together an active, inclusive citizenship; based on participation, equality, respect for all, and the flowering of creativity in all its forms. A confident people is our hope, a people at ease with itself, a people that grasps the deep meaning of the proverb; Ní neart go cur le chéile’ - our strength lies in our common weal - our social solidarity.”

The Civil War in Galway came to an end because there was little appetite for further bloodshed in the face of ruthless determination by the Free State, or the pro-treatyites, to stamp out the anti-treaty forces. The Free State government warned that anyone carrying weapons other than the National Army, would be shot. Eleven Galway anti-treatyites were shot by firing squad. On January 20 1923 Martin Bourke, Stephen Joyce, Herbert Collins, Michael Walsh, and Thomas Hughes, all attached to the North Galway IRA Brigade, were arrested and executed in Athlone. On February 19 eighteen volunteers were arrested in Annaghdown, and brought to Galway gaol. It was given out that all were ‘well armed’. Even though it was expected that all, or a number of them, would be shot, nothing happened.

A man from Dublin who broke into Ballina Train Station in order to sleep rough there, and then stole a credit card keypad from the station’s office, was before Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

Following a successful international tour during 2011 renowned business trainer and motivational speaker Pearce Flannery confirmed that the ‘Create Your Own Reality’ seminar has been confirmed for The TF Royal, Castlebar on December 15.