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Two years after a serious cycling accident from which he was lukcy to emerge with his life, Galway East TD Ciaran Cannon is to cycle through every county in a bid to show solidarity with the hundreds of cyclists who are injured on Irish roads every year.

After Catholic Emancipation where for the first time Catholics won the right to be elected and to sit in the House Of Commons, the English government, led by an enlightened Robert Peel, believed it would be worth extending emancipation to third level education.

Many applicants use the initial CAO application in January as a holding exercise and it will soon be time to submit a definitive list of options.

Whether you are a current year Leaving Cert student or sat your school leaving exams at another time or in another jurisdiction, and have applied to the CAO in 2023, now is decision time.

“It’s about artistic integrity, self-realisation, self- acceptance and a reflection on mortality” - The Guardian

Three Galway astro-photographers have been chosen for the next stage of the prestigious ‘Reach for the Stars’ astrophotography competition.

On a late August afternoon my friend John Hill drove me across the city of Zurich, climbing the suburban heights until we stopped at the gates of Fluntern Cemetery. We walked up the last incline to where, among the trees and billard-table lawns, we saw the Joyces’ grave. There was no mistaking it. Just above the grave is the Giacometti-like sculpture of the writer himself, the work of American artist Milton Hebald. There James Joyce sits, in characteristic pose, deep in conversation, head tilted, one leg resting on the other knee, cigarette poised, his slim cane delicately balanced. Someone once remarked that he held his cane like a musical instrument.

Get ready to laugh like you haven’t in a long time as Steve Hughes, a comedian who has left audiences in stitches all around our realm, brings his latest show, TOUGH LOVE, to Róisín Dubh.

Druid Theatre announced last week that DruidO’Casey, their new play cycle of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, will tour the United States later this year, visiting New York and Michigan.

“Jealous of the Birds has a knack for slicing up genres and making music that sounds homemade and tiny, but also explosive and bombastic” – NPR