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What a tumultuous political year it’s been! It began with a sense that despite much turmoil and insurgency across the globe voters would shy away from the radical choices and that something akin to the ‘status quo’ would prevail. It ended with Madonna with no sense of irony berating the President-elect of the USA for engaging in sensationalist acts and rhetoric in order to generate publicity.

MIKE ARRIGAN, the Galway drummer, music teacher, and mentor, who died last year, will be remembered and celebrated with a major show at the Town Hall Theatre in January.

Fred Johnston, the Belfast-born, Galway based, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize by the literary magazine, The Luxembourg Review.

Thousands of undocumented Irish people living in the United States are facing a bigger threat to their futures from Ireland than any measures proposed by Donald Trump, a Galway TD has claimed.

“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen.

A FORMER PR for UN peacekeeping missions in the Third World will be among the writers reading at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 17 at 6.30pm.

St Loman's Mullingar finished with a flourish against Tyrrellspass to retain the Westmeath SFC title at Cusack Park by a score of 1-13 to 0-10.

A cottage that housed a famous Galway hurling family in the late 19th century has been restored from a state of ruin and will be auctioned in the near future.

GALWAY POET Mary O'Malley recently published her latest volume of poems, Playing the Octopus, her fourth collection with Carcanet Press and her eighth in all since her 1990 debut, A Consideration of Silk.

Ballinrobe’s Alan Murphy has a hit on his hands with debut book Beyond The Spotlight. The tell-all book, which lifts the lid on the showbiz world, has shot into Amazon’s Top 10 Best Sellers List alongside other celebrity books by the likes of Katie Price, Rylan Clark-Neal, and Cheryl Cole. Featuring exclusive interviews with everyone from Louis Walsh and Rory ‘Panti’ O’Neill to Charlize Theron and Peter Andre, Beyond The Spotlight documents Alan’s career in showbiz which has seen him meet some of Hollywood’s biggest stars over the last decade.