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AS AN actor, Michael Fassbender has been living a soldier’s life these past 10 years. Since appearing in Band Of Brothers, the Kerryman has gone on to star as a Greek warrior in 300, as IRA MP and hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger, and in August we will see him back on the big screen as a British army officer in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

TWO OF the three characters whose stories are told in Judith Thompson’s powerful Iraq War drama Palace Of The End will already be familiar to Western audiences.

Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Luka Bloom will be playing in Moka Live, Castlebar on Tuesday February 17. Luka Bloom recently released his 12th album, Eleven Songs, featuring the current single ‘Don't Be Afraid Of The Light That Shines Within You’.

PETER DOHERTY, the songwriter and former frontman of The Libertines and Basbyshambles, will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 15 as part of the Heineken Green Spheres.

AMUSEMENT PARKS On Fire’s music has been described as “atmospheric punk rock space blues for the 21st century” and this young English band are set to unleash something special tomorrow when they play the Róisín Dubh at 9pm.

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.

Amnesty International’s Freedom Café on Middle Street will host a special family fun day this Sunday from 2pm to 7pm.

Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of Ireland's most enduringly popular artists. Born and raised in Strabane, he was into a wide variety of music from an early age. A fifties child, his first sounds were the swing, jazz, and show tunes of his parents generation, then fifties rock 'n roll, sixties pop and Motown, blues, R’n’B, and country and western. Through all this ran the potent flavour of Irish traditional music and song.