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HENRY MCCULLOUGH, guitarist with Paul McCartney’s Wings, will join forces with Irish blues band Left, Right & Centre for a show in the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 17 at 9pm.

Galway City Council decided this past week to remove a statue memorializing the women who lived, worked and, in some cases, died at the Sisters of Mercy Magdalene laundry in the city. Dedicated in March 2009, the Mick Wilkins statue was commissioned by the same city councilors who now seek to remove it. It is located at the corner of Forster Street and Bothár Breandan O Eithir, standing in full public view close to where the laundry institution once stood.

THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).

IN THE summer of 1978 a young man from Drogheda named Niall O’Dowd had just graduated from UCD with a BA degree but in unemployment-ravaged Ireland he felt his prospects lay elsewhere.

SHERIDAN’S WINE Bar will host an Over The Edge reading by the poets Denise Blake and Quincy Lehr and fiction writers, Aidan Hynes and Ger Burke on Friday June 18 at 8pm.

Time waits for no man, and Galway’s newest freeman of the city, John Killeen, is already setting new goals and pushing more boundaries.

The Saw Doctors, who are just back in Ireland after sell-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza, and Boston at the House of Blues, have announced two more Galway concerts on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23, upstairs at Kelly's, to add to the previously announced Galway shows at the Bridge Street venue on June 1 and 2.

Any runners celebrating their performance at an event in recent weeks might like to look away now as Westport Athletic Club this week pays tribute to one of its many fine athletes.

“Come with me, I’ll guarantee you the best time you’ve ever had,” growls Chris Smither enticingly on the first line of ‘Don’t Call Me Stranger’, the opening song from his latest album ime Stands Still.

A Salthill man who died suddenly in the United States was remembered this week with fondness as the “life and soul” of the bar in which he worked in Boston.