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Galwegians are to be offered more choice when they buy their cosmetic and beauty gifts this Christmas with the opening of a new cosmetics department at University Late Night Pharmacy.

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EXPERIMENTAL AND avant-garde films fall well outside the mainstream but cinema goers with an ‘open to anything’ attitude can discover in them a whole new world of movie going and come away with new perspectives and a hunger to see more.

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Dublin-based band Caruso take to the stage in Athlone’s intimate Passionfruit Theatre next Friday January 23.

If you want to make this a year of cultural enlightenment, then why not visit the European capitals of culture 2009: Linz in Austria and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. If you want to make this a year of cultural enlightenment, then why not visit the European capitals of culture 2009: Linz in Austria and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

On the evening that France and Britain declared war on Germany, September 3 1939, the 13,500-ton liner SS Athenia, chartered by the Cunard Line, and bound for Montreal with 1,418 passengers and crew was torpedoed, without warning, 250 miles northwest of Malin Head in the North Atlantic*. The following day the Norwegian vessel, Knute Nelson, was steaming towards Galway with 367 shocked and injured survivors, and asked that the city be prepared to receive them. Other survivors were picked up by British naval vessels and brought elsewhere for treatment, but in total 112 passengers and crew were killed in the attack, 28 of them Americans sailing for home as war was declared in Europe.

From the edge of fiery volcanoes to the quiet, contemplative Sheela Na Gig, Carmel Mooney’s brilliantly vibrant artworks are as enticing as they are breathtaking.

Shortly after dawn on Saturday, September 16 1944, Michael Conneely, a bachelor of 55 years was asleep in his cottage at Ailleabreach, Ballyconneely, when loud banging on his door woke him. He shouted ‘who’s there?’ The storm of the previous two days had abated but he couldn’t make out what the voice said. Grabbing a pitchfork, he slowly opened to door. Outside were two men, wet to the skin, in deep distress. Michael put the pitchfork to the throat of the first man: ‘Who are you?

The senior club championship kicks off this weekend and to be honest I am getting excited and a little nervous because of it. All the dreaming, planning, and orchestrating for a crack at winning the title will be put to its first big test on Sunday. The weather forecast is good and the fact that it is a long weekend should guarantee a bumper crowd at the games, which will surely bring a smile to the face of what is normally a very serious looking county treasurer! The real secret of the GAA's success is that it is so fervently supported at community level, and this weekend will see thousands turning out to support their respective clubs all over the county. You don't have to be interested in football — everyone goes to support their parish or their club. Gaelic is easy to watch. It is free flowing and robust with a lot of scores, and that's attractive for punters who are used to watching soccer where there is maybe one goal in the space of 90 minutes (Wednesday’s European cup final being an exception, when we could sit back and marvel at the flamboyant skills of Barcelona). There are very few things in life that create the excitement of a good club championship match and I personally love the build up to championship Sundays.