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NEARLY 40 years after they announced their arrival with their classic debut single ‘Teenage Kicks’, The Undertones remain an exhilarating live act and next week sees the quintet breeze into the Roisín Dubh.

Q: I haven’t worked outside the home for 20 years. First, I was at home with the children, and then my husband took ill and I became his full-time carer until he passed away last year. Now, I want to go back to work, but I am frightened. Where to start? Previously, I worked in retail and enjoyed it, but I fear my skills have lapsed. Any suggestions? (GL, email).

With the school holidays finally here, the thoughts of many families turn towards the precious annual holiday.

La Maison Chic bespoke interiors has just completed the refurbishment of Spanish Point House in Co Clare. This house, now a luxury guesthouse, was built as Sea View House by Francis Gould Morony, formerly of Miltown House, in 1830, replacing an older building. Morony willed Sea View to his wife’s niece, Miss Stoney, who married Captain Robert Ellis.

RODNEY CROWELL is a Grammy award winning Texan country music singer-songwriter, but Rodney Owl is an entirely different proposition altogether as Galway will see at two gigs this month.

ART, YEAH? is an exhibition of work, using a variety of media and exploring a rage of themes, by County Galway artists aged between 16 and 19, opens next week in The Courthouse, Kinvara.

BRIAN WILSON is not the only veteran of thrilling 1960s harmony-based singing coming to the Absolut Big Top in this year’s GIAF. Ladysmith Black Mambazo are flying in from Durban with their world-renowned celebratory sounds of South Africa.

RENOWNED AUSTRALIAN circus troupe Casus makes its second visit to the Galway International Arts Festival with Driftwood. It previously played the festival in 2013 with international smash hit Knee Deep, which won Best Circus & Physical Theatre awards at both the Adelaide Fringe and Avignon festivals.

Tickets for globally renowned artist Ed Sheeran's nationwide tour go on sale this coming Saturday, July 8, at 9am.

THE 13TH annual Carrick Water Music Festival, staring July 12, and running for five days, will be headlined by the legendary Scottish folk-rock and roots band The Waterboys.