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Connacht will kick off their European Challenge Cup campaign with a visit to France on October 10.

IT IS a manic time for Dublin indie-pop mavericks Fight Like Apes. “We have worked our asses off. We have not been home for even a week in months,” declares singer MayKay of the whirlwind circuit that has seen them play Oxegen, Glastonbury, Reading, and Castle-palooza, before supporting the Ting Tings British tour this month.

FOR THE last 25 years, the songs of Paul Heaton - whether in The Housemartins or The Beautiful South - have become the soundtrack to many people’s lives.

A new film from the Coen brothers is always greeted with deserved anticipation, and their latest, Burn After Reading is no exception, as evidenced by a packed cinema last Friday.

LEADING POET John Goodby will read from his work at The November Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, on Thursday November 20 at 6.30pm.

I have often been intrigued by the stories of German spies parachuted into Ireland during World War II. It was quite an intriguing time. De Valera was anxious to steer the country in neutral waters, despite serious pressure from Britain and America to at least open our ports to the transatlantic convoys which were being hammered by German U-boats. The IRA and its sympathisers, were pro German to such an extent that Germany believed it could foster a lot of trouble in Britain’s ‘back yard’ by encouraging the IRA to make mischief.

ENDA WYLEY will read at Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on this evening at 6.30pm.

BRITISH PUNK, funk, indie, and electro band Does It Offend You, Yeah? will launch The Alternative Disco, the new clubnight at Cuba*, Eyre Square, this Saturday at 11pm.

The ninth issue of the very popular Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet has been published by the Arts Office of the Kilkenny County Council.

Connacht’s European hopes are once again on the line this weekend when they resume their Challenge Cup campaign.