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Paula Healy, station manager, Flirt 101.3 FM

The Keane family from Caherlistrane; Matt, Sean, Orlaith and Laura Keane take to the stage for the first big concert of 2020. They will be joined by musicians Derek Hickey, Maria Fahy, Meadhbh O’Neill, Colm Naughton, Caoimhe Ni Flaharta, Pat Coyne, Catherine McHugh and the Hernon Family from Carna.

Legends of the Irish music scene, on a national and international standing, The Fureys, renowned for their hit songs ‘I Will Love You’, ‘When You Were Sweet 16’, ‘The Green Fields of France’, ‘The Old Man’, ‘Red Rose Café’, ‘From Clare to Here’, ‘Leaving Nancy’ and‘Steal Away' will perform their live repertoire in the surrounds of the Radisson Blu Athlone Hotel on Friday, December 27.

JOHNNY MCEVOY has been a leading folk singer-songwriter in Ireland for more than 50 years, and next month he comes to the Town Hall Theatre for a nostalgic evening of song and story.

In his famous statue of the writer and Irish scholar Pádraic Ó Conaire, the sculpture Albert Power presents a brilliant likeness to the man Galway knew as he went about the town. Liam Ó Briain, a friend and fellow Irish enthusiast, remarked that Albert Power had captured exactly how the man looked. Meeting Ó Conaire in town one evening, Ó Briain remembered that he looked in reality as he is on the statue: ‘the stick in his right hand, the little hat on his head’, a face that could show his ‘puckish humour.’ *

This pub was one of Salthill’s landmarks for over a century. It was a post office originally until Joe Crehan from Ballinasloe bought it at the end of the 19th century and converted it into a pub, grocery, and guest house. The name Ballinasloe House was quickly shortened in Salthill to ‘The Bal’. At the time Salthill village ran from here to Seapoint with a few houses further west.

Athlone Little Theatre starts the year off with a captivating portrayal of fluctuating family relationships, in their production of Niall Williams' The Way You Look Tonight.

Ballinasloe businessman Thomas Campbell tragically lost his life last Thursday morning as the car he was traveling in collided with a bus on the Old Galway Road at Ballydangan, Roscommon, at around 10am.

Week III

The auction team at O’Donnellan & Joyce are busy with open viewings and enquiries for their list of more than 80 properties for sale in the Wild Atlantic Way summer auction on Thursday June 8. The auction will commence at 12 noon sharp in The Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway, with registration open from 11am.