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The Pantry, off Market Square, Castlebar, is the newest most exciting eatery in town.

Cuba Travel have a fantastic holiday package for this winter, where you can discover the wonders of Cuba.

Family activities are at the heart of the inaugural Galway Sea Festival taking place over the June Bank Holiday weekend (Friday May 30- Monday June 3).

Body&Soul has unveiled new Irish and international acts for this year’s line-up and a taster of the artists who will be using the midsummer festival at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath from June 21-23 as their very own blank canvas.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane is calling for the establishment of a national diaspora centre and has identified the former military barracks, Castlebar, as an ideal location.

WEATHERWISE, SUMMER 2012 has been disappointing. Wave away the rainy blues with an end of summer party at Halo. The Malibu Caribbean Party takes place at the nightclub on August 31.

When we were growing up, we never thought that people like the county council employee or the teacher or the guard ever cared about the filthy lucre. They were people who did the job cos it was part of what they were. In our minds, they were the salt of the earth, who came to their jobs because they had a calling, a sort of vocation brought to them on the road to Damascus, when they were struck by a strong light and told by a booming voice “Son, your future is in forward planning and Section Fours. Now go forth.” Young gardai then were not reared on diets of CSI and Midsomer Murders. No, they were hewn from Connemara rock, with necks like a jockey’s b.. ahem, like a jockey, and with a chest that ensured the silver insignia on their shoulders sat two yards apart. Teachers were normally the lucky ones in a family who would have the good luck to have had a grandmother or an aunt wealthy enough to send just one of them to third level while the rest stayed at home, fought over the farms and descended into a lifetime of alcoholism and inappropriate thoughts.

Billy Ocean is the biggest black recording star Britain has ever produced, one who has sold more than 30 million records in his lifetime. And he is coming to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Bank Holiday Sunday May 6.

Prepare to be swept away by the most exciting roller-coaster of a pantomime this season when the Dean Crowe Theatre presents its new year production of Treasure Island from Thursday January 12 to Sunday January 15, 2012.

AMONG THE many illustrious visitors to this year’s Galway Arts Festival is writer Emma Donoghue, author of the international best-seller and multi-award winning novel, Room.