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The Festival Big Top is set to join a list of iconic festivals that are hosting great musical talent this summer. Following their enchanting performance at this year’s Glastonbury music festival, American group Bon Iver will bring their haunting melodies from their critically acclaimed album For Emma, Forever Ago, to the Festival Big Top on Thursday, July 23 at 8.30pm. Having shared the ‘Other Stage’, one of Glastonbury’s main stages, with music greats including The Prodigy, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, Bon Iver’s Galway gig will offer the unique opportunity to savour the group’s acclaimed live performance in a unique setting following their sets on the stages of Glastonbury and Lollapalooza. Supporting Bon Iver at their Galway performance is Alela Diane, one of America’s most captivating contemporary singer/songwriters who has also just performed on Glastonbury’s The Park Stage. Following her performance at this years Glastonbury and having already caused a huge stir with her new release To Be Still, Alela Diane’s show with Bon Iver is the most highly anticipated musical performance in Galway this summer.

The Saw Doctors love Castlebar and Castlebar definitely loves the Saw Doctors!!! The last Friday in July welcomes back the Saw Doctors to the stage for their summer show. When the Saw Doctors take to the stage the whole theatre turns on its head and everyone knows every word to every song for the whole two hour show!!!

SPANISH HARLEM, also known as El Barrio, is a neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the borough of Manhattan and home to one of the largest predominantly Latino communities in New York City.

Can you imagine coming to Ireland on holiday and being told there was no Guinness or Irish Stew to be had?

A novel postcard exhibition by An Post is currently running in Mullingar.

CO GALWAY singer-songwriter Jack Harrison sings in Sanskrit, Irish, and English and his music fuses kirtan chant, gospel, and Irish folk and trad.

St Mary’s Hall off High Steet is transformed into The Rock Drop-in Centre for young people every second week offering young Kilkenny people a place to hang out other than street corners and pubs.

It’s not often a new Irish band is all but pursued by a much-in-demand world-class producer but that is exactly what happened when Los Angeles-based Mark Needham (The Killers, Fleetwood Mac, My Chemical Romance, Metrostation, Iglu and Hartly) heard about Keywest. After flying to London to meet with the band, the seeds were sown for Keywest’s debut album.

Why can’t we just be happy? Be happy that for once our Government has made the right decision. Be happy in the knowledge that we’re doing the right thing. Be happy that our country can provide safety for those who deserve it. Be happy to know we can return the favour, the gift of freedom, to our global neighbours.

Galway’s two world athletic champions will be feted at Croke Park on Sunday.