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Popular Galway businesswoman Mary Bennett will give a talk next week on her experiences in business when she headlines the Network Galway annual open evening.

Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

It was with shock that I digested the news that Avril Doyle is to stop down from her role as MEP for Ireland East.

Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

A top international heart surgeon is jetting into Kilkenny this weekend to take part in the Chernobyl Children’s Project annual conference.

On the evening that France and Britain declared war on Germany, September 3 1939, the 13,500-ton liner SS Athenia, chartered by the Cunard Line, and bound for Montreal with 1,418 passengers and crew was torpedoed, without warning, 250 miles northwest of Malin Head in the North Atlantic*. The following day the Norwegian vessel, Knute Nelson, was steaming towards Galway with 367 shocked and injured survivors, and asked that the city be prepared to receive them. Other survivors were picked up by British naval vessels and brought elsewhere for treatment, but in total 112 passengers and crew were killed in the attack, 28 of them Americans sailing for home as war was declared in Europe.

The Cuban ambassador Noel Carrillo will be speaking in Galway about the Cuban revolution in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Thursday April 2 at 8.30pm.

OVER THE past 18 months Offaly has very much been thrust into the international spotlight as the ancestral home of Barack Obama. Prior to the new US president though, the Faithful County’s best known ambassador was singer-songwriter Mundy.

From the edge of fiery volcanoes to the quiet, contemplative Sheela Na Gig, Carmel Mooney’s brilliantly vibrant artworks are as enticing as they are breathtaking.

Psychotherapist, former Green Party Councillor for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and former president’s daughter, Nessa Childers may seem like an unlikely character to be running on the Labour Party ticket for Europe, but she is adamant that she should be there.