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SO COW might not be the biggest name in Irish music, but to hard core indie fans across the globe he is something special.

Stephen Carolan, a work colleague in Mayo County Council, called me a few weeks ago to arrange a chat with me to discuss the topic ‘Mayo GAA as a stimulator of economic activity’. I am struggling a little to come up with some ideas yet I would welcome the chance to sit and discuss the issue due to the importance of the topic. I think the best way to come up with some initiatives is to pull those interested in making a contribution into a room for an hour or two to discuss. It is amazing to think what might come out of such a discussion like that when like minded individuals get around a table. It is a crucial issue in the current situation we find ourselves in as there is a real danger that we will lose some of our finest players to emigration.

GALWAY’S CROI8 Productions will perform the Irish stage premiere of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere at the Town Hall Theatre studio from December 8 to 11.

There will be a big Mayo interest on Saturday night in Breaffy House Resort when the ring bell tolls and the pugilists are called to the centre of the ring to get the action under way. Three Mayo men are on the undercard of the night’s boxing which has been tagged as “Young Guns”.

Dublin pop songwriter Ivan St John, formerly Pinky, has been quietly plying his trade over the last number of years. Despite performing shows and touring with artists of the ilk of Camera Obscura, Richard Swift, Of Montreal, Rodriguez, Bowerbirds, and The Walkmen, he has avoided screechy hyperbole, choosing instead to get on with the work at hand. No scenester ligging, no grandiose claims to next big thing titles. Ivan St John has simply been playing and writing and recording and playing and writing and recording. Having grown up in St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir, Ivan has been cocooned in music since he was eight, inspired by the juxtaposition of listening to Paul Simon and Queen on the way to school and then singing Allegri’s Miserere in the evening. Fast forward 12 years and Ivan St John prepares to release his debut LP, Up To Snuff.

As the emigration trend continues to draw young and old from our shores, new networking groups to connect Irish people abroad are coming on stream.

After the phenomenal response to their first house classics party earlier this year, Disconauts Padraic & Keith are going back to their roots again this Saturday 9 October in Deeper with a selection of house, disco, proto-house (and perhaps even pop) anthems from the vaults that have helped form the Disconauts' sound and indeed the sound of today's house music.

Want to lighten up your house and brighten your mood this autumn? Then look no further than B&Q’s new lighting range.

Memories of this year’s Rhythm and Roots Festival will be revived with a full programme of shows at Cleeres this weekend.

Want to lighten up your house and brighten your mood this autumn? Then look no further than B&Q’s new lighting range.