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MARKETA IRGLOVA, who rose to prominence with her collaborations with Glen Hansard in The Swell Season and in the Oscar winning film Once, is coming to Galway.

When the Kilkenny essayist Herbert Butler came to write about the burning of Bridget Cleary in 1960 he acknowledged that Slievenaman was always known for its mysterious past. Looking across the Tipperary border from his fields, he described it as ‘a pale blue hump with the soft, rounded contours of ancient hills whose roughness have been smoothed away by time. Finn MacCool lived there as did Oisin and Oscar, and 50 beautiful maidens, who gave it its name The Mountain of Women.’ In Bridget Cleary’s time, it was also the home of Denis Ganey, the local herbal doctor, and a man respected and feared for his knowledge of fairylore. It was to this house that Michael Cleary ran to on the afternoon of Thursday March 14 1895. He pleaded for a cure for his wife whom he believed had been taken by the fairies, and replaced by a woman that was not the Bridget Boland he had married.

CATHERINE DENEUVE, Antonio Banderas, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, and Audrey Tautou are among the big name stars who will appear on screen during the Galway Film Society’s autumn/winter season.

MARKETA IRGLOVA, who rose to prominence with her collaborations with Glen Hansard in The Swell Season and in the Oscar winning film Once, is coming to Galway.

A SINGLE act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a war unlike any other and a dramatic reversal of the progress of evolution.

President Mary McAleese visited Inis Meain at the weekend to honour a joint invitation made by Druid Theatre and the local sports and entertainment group Coiste Spórt agus Siamsa to attend the staging of Martin McDonagh’s play The Cripple of Inishmaan in the local halla. This first staging on location marked the culmination of an extensive five-month tour of Ireland and the USA.

Today Labour MEP Nessa Childers will visit Kilkenny to meet with heritage experts and film entrepreneurs to learn about their plans for maintaining and developing Kilkenny’s status as heritage destination and creative hub.

Mervue United’s u-13s have advanced to the semi-finals of the SFAI Troy Cup after a 1- 0 victory over North Dublin Schoolboys League side, Woodlawn/Sportslink, at the Oscar Traynor Centre in Coolock.

The vocal star of the Oscar-nominated movie, The Secret of Kells, Christen Mooney (13) has agreed to be the Grand Marshall for this year’s St Partick’s Day Parade in Kilkenny.

The ice and snow claimed many victims since before Christmas and with some more severe weather in the offing over the next few days, Mayo League manager Brendan Kenny is hoping that it will not claim his side’s Oscar Traynor Cup clash with the Roscommon and District League for a second time. “Hopefully it will go ahead this weekend, it’s been a long time coming now,” he said. “The weather is the weather and there’s nothing much you can do about it. But on the positive side it has given the lads a break that they would have needed. You have to have a break from the game for a while or lads will get burnt out or lose their appetitive for the game. I suppose you could also say that it has shown well for the Mayo League, with the amount of postponements, their decision to change to summer soccer a few years ago.”