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The Aftermath return to Ireland after a successful UK tour which saw then feature on BBC’s Tom Robinson and Radcliff and Maconie shows for the final release of debut album Friendlier Up Here.

Kilkenny certainly has no shortage of new music thanks to the very successful venture of Ken McGuire and his One Take Sessions which have taken off with gusto in Cleere’s for another season.

LEADING GERMAN author Ulrich Peltzer will give a public reading in the Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI, Galway, today from 5pm to 6pm.

DESPITE THE general perception that the massive advances in technology threaten the future of the printed book, the parallel growth in the number of new publications would suggest the contrary.

For Communist countries, sport was more than just athleticism. It was a patriotic duty, a chance to represent Communism on an international stage, and show the West that it was a superior way of life.

On August 13 1961, people in the Allied sector of Berlin awoke to find their part of the city completely surrounded by barbed wire. Within days construction began on a large edifice the world would soon know as The Berlin Wall.

On November 9 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. It was a momentous event, not only for Germany, but for Europe as it marked the collapse of Communism.

No doubt about Streep

Galway Olympian Olive Loughane was the impressive winner of the Dublin Grand Prix of Race Walking in Dublin’s Phoenix Park on Sunday.

MARY COUGHLAN has been the undisputed First Lady of Irish jazz and blues since she arrived on the music scene in 1985 when her debut album Tired and Emotional sold more than 100,000 copies.