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The Galway Albanian community the Irish Friends of Albania group will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Albanian Independence this week.

The first winter of the war was unusually cold. Commander Bill King’s submarine Snapper served in the North Sea from April 1939 for 12 months. During that time it had numerous contact with enemy ships, mainly in the Skagerrat Strait, between the southeast coast of Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden.

A jury heard yesterday how a man, charged with withholding information during a garda investigation into the killing of a popular Oughterard publican and teacher John Kenny, had “not been himself” when met by an acquaintance later that night, hours before the grim discovery was made by distraught family members.

One of the most extraordinary meetings in the aftermath of any war took place in May 2004 in Oranmore Castle, the home of the late Commander Bill King RN, and his family.

he car pulled up as one side of the gate had been closed by us for that purpose. A man left the car to open the gate. I didn’t know him. When he got to the gate he got the order “hands up” from Ryan and myself. Instead of complying he dodged for cover out of our sight. We concentrated fire on the car, doing our best to save the women in it. The men in the lodge killed the man who came to open the gate. Blake and the other man in the car were killed and one of the two women. Brigadier Stanford (IRA) was on one knee. A bullet hit the stock of his gun, grazed the inside of his leg above the knee and lodged in the heel of his boot. It must have been from the .32 Colt automatic fired by the man who tried to open the gate. I heard afterwards that this man was Captain Cornwallis and that the other man killed was Lieutenant McReary.

Bono’s money may be coming to young musicians in Westmeath if an Arts Office application for Music Generation Funding is successful.

POEMS, THE debut collection of Michael Faherty, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday October 5 at 6pm, by the Galway city arts officer James Harrold.

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Eyre Square, and this milestone event in the city’s chief civic space will be marked with an open air concert this Saturday.

IMPRESSIONS, IRELAND’S longest running open submission print exhibition opens in the Galway Arts Centre on Friday September 14.

A Fine Gael senator who was fined for boarding a train without a ticket is to meet Iarnrod Eireann officials next week with a view to “improving policy and practice”.