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TOM CHAPIN, the three-time Grammy award winning singer-songwriter, is making a welcome return to County Galway and the Baboró International Children’s Festival.

It is often the case in business that the time when you should be worried about something is not when it is in a crisis. The worries tend to be obvious at that stage, and everyone is focussed.

It is often the case in business that the time when you should be worried about something is not when it is in a crisis. The worries tend to be obvious at that stage, and everyone is focussed.

It is often the case in business that the time when you should be worried about something is not when it is in a crisis. The worries tend to be obvious at that stage, and everyone is focussed.

Over the course of the next week, you will be regaled with anecdotes about the day the most famous man in the world came to Galway and how for one day, everything came to a standstill. And how the snapshots in our mind, whether they be colour or black and white were forever crystallised on those heady days and in the sad months that followed, as reality became legend and legend became myth.

The Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival was launched in McGing's Bar, Westport, on Friday night last, May 17. The festival, now in its seventh year, will run over three days on the weekend of June 14 to 16. This year it will feature some 15 local, national, and international acts, including local band The Rocky Top String Band; Cork-based folk singer John Spillane; The Bluegrass Boogiemen from Holland; and 'The Queen of Banjo', Roni Stoneman from Nashville, who will be supported by fellow US act, Tumbling Bones.

Castlebar native Jack O'Donnell has been appointed programme director to the New Story Leadership (NSL) in Washington DC for summer 2013.

The way Irish politicians are elected to the Dáil is to be debated at the next meeting of the Convention on the Constitution. In advance of the gathering, the chairman of the convention, Tom Arnold, has urged the citizens of Mayo to participate by submitting their views and suggestions on the Dáil electoral system.

AMERICAN TRADITIONAL and choral music will join forces for a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Wednesday May 15 at 8pm.

A two-year, ongoing project to complete a 5km riverside trail around the westside of Athlone will be open in time for the summer, it was revealed this week.