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An Taoiseach Enda Kenny will be making his way down west next week for the official opening of BioWare Ireland in Galway.

IAN MCLAGEN boasts one of English rock’s most impressive CVs, having been a member of The Small Faces, The Faces, and Billy Bragg’s band The Blokes, not to mention session work for the Rolling Stones (that’s him playing keyboards on ‘Miss You’), Rod Stewart (Mac is on ‘Maggie May’ and ‘You Wear It Well’), and Bob Dylan, as well as maintaining a solo career since the late 1970s.

I’ve worked hard to convince friends that cycling is a tough sport and that those who compete at the highest level in the sport are mentally and physically superior to the average human being. I had a few of those friends with me last Sunday and Monday as we completed two stages of this year’s Ras. By now they need absolutely no convincing whatsoever that professional cyclists are as tough as nails. I don’t want to confuse the situation here by suggesting that I was riding with the professionals last Sunday and Monday. Far from it…those guys are in a different league.

Galway’s Paul Griffin has recently been appointed as a non executive director for the PHAB (performance in hair and beauty) organisation. The owner of five star Zenith Hairdressing on Eyre Street, Paul has an impressive resume at home and abroad, working at the highest level as an educator, platform artist, a photographic contributor to countless publications, and he has gained numerous qualifications and awards. The award is the culmination of 20 years of dedicated work in his field and he becomes the only person in Ireland to be honoured in this way.

O EMPEROR are on the crest of a wave. In less than two years they have become one of the highest profile alternative acts in the county, and one of the most acclaimed.

This spectacular six bedroom property is an unbelievable family home for sale in the beautiful area of Cloosh, Kinvara. The entire property and grounds are of exceptional design and standard and must be viewed to be really appreciated.

If the 2009 meeting of these two sides is anything to go by, Saturday’s crowd will be treated to a spectacular show in the All-Ireland senior doubles final, as Kilkenny and Meath renew rivalries. Royal County pairing Brian Carroll and Tom Sheridan bid to reclaim the title they won in 2008, while Kilkenny duo Michael ‘Ducksy’ Walsh and Michael Clifford go in search of their first title as a partnership.

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Ah yes, looking back on the Rhythm and Roots Festival and heading into day three. Sunday is the biggest day of the weekend, with 38 shows scheduled between 1pm and early Monday morning. That’s 38 opportunities for something to go wrong, but, miraculously there’s hardly a hitch all day and night. The closest we get to a crisis is one of the bands turning up 10 minutes late.

There was a very good ethnological study on the fishermen of the Claddagh published in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology in 1854, which among other things stated that: “The people of the Claddagh are, in my opinion, purely Irish, of the most ancient Celtic type. The village at the present day is like any ordinary Irish village, and that it was a mud city when Rome was being founded, is more than probable. That the Claddagh men are not Spaniards any one might see at a glance; and it is astonishing to me how the theory of their Spanish origins could have kept ground for so long. A Spanish face may still be seen in and about Galway — once in a week or so; but it appears to me that the Claddagh, above all other people, had no intermarriage with Spaniards.