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Aer Arann, Ireland’s regional airline last week announced details of its new brand and corporate identity - Aer Arann Regional.

FREDDIE WHITE has been to the forefront of Irish folk for more than 40 years. He began playing gigs in his teens around Cork city before perfecting his unique style busking in London.

While most of us will be readying ourselves for the tried and tested turkey/ham/spuds Christmas Day combination, there are now more alternatives available in Galway than ever before. Our markets – both the St Nicholas' weekly market and the 'Christkindlmarkt' in Eyre Square – our restaurants and food emporiums now offer a broad array of options for those of us not brimming over with joie de vivre at the prospect of a week of heavy duty turkey consumption.

As Chairman of the Irish Hotels Federation in Mayo and General Manager of the McWilliam Park Hotel in Claremorris, Fergal Ryan represents the county and its 40-plus hotels at a national level, attending monthly meetings with other representatives from around Ireland.

There were very few industrial plants in Galway in the 1950s. Galway Textile Printers, known locally as the cotton factory, had just opened; there was the hat factory, and there were some small units around town, but that was it. Then the Lemass era arrived, and there was a change in government policy as the government began to actively encourage industries from abroad to locate here.

GALWAY BASED indie-acoustic singer-songwriter Seán Kangataran has just released his self-titled debut album.

The AA has conducted a survey of nearly 7000 Irish motorists and the results show that most people feel that Irish driving standards have improved in the last 10 years – but not by much.

IT WAS a time when the world was opening up. Our World, the first satellite television production, broadcast The Beatles performing ‘All You Need Is Love’ to 400 million people across the globe in 1967.

ACCORDION MUSIC is not the most popular among traditional music purists, but one of the great Irish exponents of the instrument, Alan Kelly, is well aware of “the pitfalls of traditional music”.

ACOUSTIC BLUES singer-songwriter Eric Bibb was born in New York in 1951 and grew up surrounded by the Greenwich Village folk music and literary scene which included Bob Dylan, Dave Von Ronk, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez.