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In a career spanning more than 20 years Colin Bateman has proven himself to be one of Ireland’s most prolific and entertaining writers.

It’s not the normal thing to do! It’s probably not the right thing to do. But it might just happen this coming Thursday April 23 to Saturday 25th in the heart of Kilkenny - when a 13 year old boy will attempt to bury his brother in the pavement!

Optical Express, the leading provider of laser eye surgery in Europe, with 60 clinics in the UK, Europe and the US, has announced that they will open three new locations in Ireland in Cork, Dublin and Galway in the next 12 months.

Ballina Film Club’s autumn/winter programme continues on Tuesday December 16 at 8pm, with The Bothersome Man in Ballina Arts Centre. Norwegian director Jens Lien's debut, The Bothersome Man is a surreal, idiosyncratic black comedy. When forty-year-old Andreas (Trond Fausa Aurvag) mysteriously arrives in a strange city, with no memory of how he arrived, it seems a perfect place to live. He is fitted out with an office at an accountancy firm, and a smart new apartment. The people are friendly; he even finds romance with the pretty Anne-Britt (Petronella Barker). But beneath the surface, there is something sinister. This clean, efficient, smiling town is entirely without human feeling. Dinner parties are strangely joyless affairs, where friends obsess over interior decor. Hot chocolate is bland. And anyway, where on earth is he? Soon, Andreas is determined to escape. Admission costs €7.

Beacon – works from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation at Ballina Arts Centre

I’ve never had much luck or patience when it came to three hour long epic movies - there’s either far too much to take in or not enough. It takes a brave director, a great screenplay writer, and a few not too shabby actors to pull it off and I have to say Benjamin Button just about did just that.

TWO DIFFERENT books, both from Salmon Poetry, will be launched in Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

IF YOU get into the ring with Mike Tyson on a regular basis for a pummelling, people will generally consider you either very brave, very stupid, or both.

Athlone Film Club ends its successful spring season with the charming and offbeat film, The Pope's Toilet.

KEN BRUEN is one of the few Galway based writers whose books sell in large quantities worldwide. This fact on its own would lead some of the more tragic purists among us to view him with suspicion.