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A new group, the Galway Anti Racism Network, is organising a number of events over the coming weeks to promote its official launch, which will take place early next month.

Exhibit B, one of the flagship events at this years Galway International Arts Festival, has been branded a "racist installation", and a direct appeal has been made to the festival to remove it from its programme, in spite of the fact that the show is currently running in the Black Box Theatre.

WHEN BRETT Bailey’s theatre installation show Exhibit B was controversially pulled from its scheduled run at London’s Barbican it was because protesters had argued that Bailey’s critique of 19th century ‘human zoos’ and racism was in itself racist, through his use of black actors silently enduring the audience gaze in a series of tableaux vivants.

UNTIL THE outbreak of the WWI, there was a phenomenon known as The Human Zoo, where African tribespeople were put on public display as exhibits and curiosities - under the guise of “ethnological enlightenment” - for the titillation of European and American audiences.

Love Thy Neighbour is a three act comedy by Jimmy Keary. Performed by the Mullet Drama Group, Love Thy Neighbour will be performed three nights here in Áras Inis Gluaire; Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 and Friday, April 27. All shows 8pm.

A special soccer tournament will be held in Kilkenny’s Watershed sports complex this weekend in an effort to combat racism in sport and promote diversity in Kilkenny.

We live in a multi-cultural society which in recent years has seen a steady influx of immigrants from all over the world.

The young boy at the centre of a national debate on racism in sport shrugged off the events of last week to score a goal as his club Éire Óg stormed to the county under-14 football title on Tuesday night.

Galway City Councillor Billy Cameron has taken up the fight to put an end to the singing of a new Glasgow Rangers song that has outraged Galway’s Celtic supporters.