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SNOW WHITE Turtle Doves, the debut novel from Juliet Bressan, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Thursday September 18 at 6pm.

THE GALWAY Arts Festival unveiled its 2009 programme last week and, as ever, it’s chock-a-block with top-drawer attractions from both home and abroad. Theatre and dance - as ever,- feature strongly in the line-up and last Friday, over an afternoon coffee, festival director Paul Fahy met up to talk through some of this year’s highlights.

There’s only one story in town this week folks. Yeah, you guessed it, the fallout from the Minister McGuinness™ saga.

Just a few weeks ago Fine Gael’s Peter Flynn and Labour’s Keith Martin, both sitting councillors on Westport Town council, condemned the vandalism and destruction of political posters outside Westport. The graffiti, which appeared to have been designed to pit two of Westport’s popular young councillors against each other, had the opposite effect with both Flynn and Martin coming together to remove the posters and condemn the cowardly act which they believe was politically motivated.

Across Mayo political posters have been defaced and vandalised, as is common with most political campaigns. But people would be forgiven for thinking they had stepped into Baghdad this week due to the vicious and sinister element which has developed in south Mayo where one sitting councillor’s poster was shot at. This turn of events is one step too far and goes beyond painting glasses and moustaches on candidates’ faces.