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OPERA GETS its turn at the Galway International Arts Festival tonight and tomorrow at 8pm when Atalante and Resurgam combine to present Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo at St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church.

The Kings’ Head and Malt House Restaurant have just joined one of the more exclusive food clubs in Ireland – Good Food Ireland. It is not an easy club to get into either - you have to jump through a fair amount of hoops before you get one of these coveted stickers for your front door. And they're in good company too, with Kai, Aniar and Renvyle House also on the GFI list.

In late November 1623, John Donne, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, fell ill, probably of typhus, or ‘spotted fever’, as it was called in his day. He was in his early fifties, a widower since the death of his beloved wife Anne in 1617, and the father of four daughters and a son, who carried his father’s name.

EVER NOTICED how men who are comedians will just be called comedians, but women who are comics will almost always be referred to as ‘female comedians’, as if their gender requires them to be labelled as a separate and distinct category?

Forget the monkey suits from the 1970’s original, even the 2001 remake has not a patch on this newest offering which I found not just surprisingly entertaining but also emotionally touching in places. I never thought I’d say this but the Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a great watch.

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Galway’s award winning ‘Kinvara Organic Smoked Salmon’ was served to Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles at the first ever visit of a member of the royal family to the Irish embassy in London on Tuesday.

The finest amateur drama talent in the country will head to Claregalway from tonight (Thursday) March 11 when the Claregalway Drama Festival gets under way at the local leisure centre.

I’ve never owned a dog. I’m fond of other peoples, but, like children, it’s good to be able to hand them back to their owners/parents at the end of a visit. I almost bought a King Charles once, but a veterinary friend advised me against it. “You’ll end up handing me a fortune, those purebreds are all inbred and pick up all sorts of sicknesses. Get yourself a mongrel instead.”

Music Machine and The Royal Theatre and Event Centre Castlebar present The Priests in concert on Sunday March 29. The Priests, Father Eugene O’Hagan, Father Martin O’Hagan, and Father David Delargy, are currently taking the world by storm. Their debut album entered the Irish charts at number one and the UK charts at number five making the Priests’ debut album the 'fastest-selling UK debut for a classical act' as certified by Guinness World Records.