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AWARD WINNING American poet Tamar Yoseloff will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday December 15 at 6.30pm.

November’s Mayo Open Coffee Club meeting will take place on Wednesday November 2 at 11am in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar, and this month the club will be focusing on the Public Procurement Process. Annually the market for public procurement in the EU amounts to approximately €1,800 billion.

Former Retreat Road resident and Marist past pupil Brian Lenihan, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer last Friday after an 18-month battle while carrying out his duties as Minister for Finance, was buried this week at St David’s cemetery in Kilsallaghan, north county Dublin, amid a tsunami of tributes from a grateful nation.

Two second year pupils from Coláiste Iognáid have just been ranked among the top ten debating teams of their age in the world. On Saturday, 14-year-old ‘Jes’ pupils Daragh McCarthy and Eoghan Finn finished in joint ninth position in the 2011 International Competition for Young Debaters. They defeated more than 300 pupils from around the world in the event which took place in Cambridge.

TERRY REID could have been the lead singer in Led Zeppelin. Richie Blackmore wanted him to be Deep Purple’s frontman. Both incidents have gone down in legend to cast Terry as rock’s ‘great nearly man...’, but to think this way is to forget that Terry Reid has always been his own man.

In 1835 Harriet Letitia Martin, the daughter of the famous ‘Humanity’ Dick Martin of Ballinahinch castle, Connemara, wrote a book, Canvassing (published by Saunders & Otley, London), which, I imagine, was avidly read in Galway*. It told the story of the last time her father stood for parliament in 1826. He was successful, but a subsequent parliamentary investigation showed that fraud, trickery, bullying, intimidation, and misrepresentation on a vast scale had taken place. His tenants came into Galway from all over Connemara in a variety of disguises and voted repeatedly. He was dismissed from parliament, and consequently faced the wrath of his many creditors. As a member of parliament he enjoyed immunity from prosecution. Now he was thrown to the wolves.....

A psychiatrist with extensive experience helping people cope with depression will give a free public talk on the subject in the city next week.

Look forward to the New Year by signing up for a brand new career at Anne Tobin Beauty College in Castlebar. Course options include everything from beauty, make-up artistry and nail extensions to weight loss and sports therapy.

Following the successful visit to Callan from Dragon's Den celebrity Sarah Newman recently, The St Brigid’s College talk series continues with an exciting new guest this month.

I’ve been reading again, for the first time in many years, Graham Greene’s novels, and in particular Brighton Rock, one of his earliest and still one of his finest, a new film of which is soon to be released.