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BY GETTING back to basics, recapturing the comedy and the brilliance that saw everyone falling in love with Captain Jack Sparrow, On Stranger Tides brings all the best qualities flooding back with the result that this movie is almost as good as the first, almost.

IF YOU are going to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, you could be in with a chance to win some swashbuckling presents.

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When we think of the Caribbean, the predominant image is of a mixed race people, descended from mostly African slaves, Spanish settlers, and French and English adventures. However the Irish are also a significant, but mostly overlooked, part of that rich ethnic mix.

Following the local final of the Newstalk Student Enterprise Competition at AIT, a team of students has been chosen to represent the college at the national semi-final of the competition in February. The students that make up the winning team are Nikita Dementiev, Ellen Rodekuhr, Inken Rodekuhr, and Ardan Hennessy.

SINGERS AND Their Songs is an annual series of live sessions in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, promoting Galway based singer-songwriters, acoustic groups, and roots bands.

THE OLD rivalry and enmity between the amateur and professional football codes in England may have led to a battalion of footballers being raised for the British army in WWI.

ON SEPTEMBER 21 1588, a violent storm of tornado strength broke up three ships of the Spanish Armada and ran them aground on Streedagh Beach in County Sligo.

A study trip to the Caribbean is up for grabs by Institute of Technology and National College of Ireland students from this week.