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With the local and European elections on the horizon teenagers in Ireland will be watching proceedings from the outside, wondering why their voices can't be heard. A campaign is mounting to allow 16 and 17-year-olds vote, and it’s one which the Mayo Advertiser supports. At the ages of 16 and 17 you can pay taxes, get married, work full-time, leave school, or be detained at a detention centre, so why not have the right to vote?

THE TRASH Dolls - Louise Cunnane and Nicola Cosgrove - are a new Galway based duo determined to inject something different and ‘alternatively feminine’ into the city’s mostly male dominated DJ scene with their club nights in the Róisín Dubh and Cuba*.

For one night only on March 1, the Comedy Club at Cuba* reverts to its traditional Sunday night slot with a show from the dynamic and hilarious Jason Byrne (pictured), a master of improvisation and madcap buffoonery. There will be a full support bill and Gerry Mallon is the MC. Tickets are available in advance at Bar 903, The Cellar Bar, and at the door which opens at 8.30pm

HOT CHIP will be raiding their record boxes and CD collections this week in preparation for the DJ set they will unleash in Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Saturday.

“I CANNOT get enough of these guys, they soothe the soul.” So said US president Barack Obama about the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, who will launch their new album in Cuba*, Eyre Square on Friday May 29 at 8pm.

A man who threatened to “sort out” his elderly neighbours following a noise complaint, and spat at a garda on another occasion after roaring abuse, was sentenced to a total of 10 months in jail at Galway District Court yesterday.

THE RISE of Irish comedy both nationally and internationally over the last 25 years has been truly inspirational. Galway has played an important part in the ascendancy of many Irish comedians by providing them with a platform to develop their craft. The city has also given many of them their first experience of a festival.

A COUPLE of years ago the Black Box Theatre hosted a concert of Cuban music to raise funds for an initiative An Spidéal based piano tuner Ciaran Ryan was developing in Cuba.

Chucho Valdes, the godfather of Cuban jazz ,will play two concerts in Ireland this summer in support of Una Corda, a charity founded by Galwegian Ciaran Ryan.

WIGGLE, THE Cork electro-dub band, will play Cuba*, Eyre Square, tomorrow at 10pm to launch their debut album Brighten The World.