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The dogs in the street know there is no love lost between Minister Éamon Ó Cuív and Dep Frank Fahey TD, but at a meeting last year in Ros a’Mhíl even the fish in the sea got wind of the animosity when local FFers feared blows might be exchanged between the two heavy hitters.

SECOND AGE Theatre Company comes to Galway next month with its new staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by Alan Stanford.

A selection of Carlow’s u12 Academy have just returned from a very successful trip to Sweden, where they finished second in the 2008 Orebro Cup. This year’s tournament in Orebro was one of the largest to date, with over four hundred teams from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Ireland taking part.

As part of Roscommon Arts Centre’s Inside Out programme of events this summer there is an enormous pig is making its way to the town this August.

The band were formed in 1978 literally by accident. George, Paul and Davey were playing in Denmark with their own band called the Buskers and Eddie and Finbar, while touring in Germany, were involved in a road accident. When George, Paul and Davey got news of the accident they immediately travelled to Germany to be with their brothers. They then decided that they should all be playing together and this was the start of the Fureys and Davey Arthur. Inevitably changes have occurred over 30 years. Their brother Paul died suddenly in June 2002 and Finbar left the band in December 1996, however George, Eddie and Davey Arthur have continued to delight audiences on their tours and have been releasing a new CD every year. They will be touring in 2008 with two superb musicians - Luke Crowley and Dominic Leech.

BABORÓ, THE Galway based international arts festival for children, returns from October 13 to 19 featuring opera singing sheep, a lost sock workshops, haunted houses, hip hop dance, life size bubbles, and an electric fairy.

GALWAY CINEMA buffs, along with movie connoisseurs from 114 other cities across four continents will unite to view and judge the next generation of filmmakers at the 11th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival.

GALWAY’S VIBRANT children’s arts festival Baboró has unveiled its line-up for this year’s programme and, as ever there’s a wealth of colourful, magical, and enthralling shows on offer that are sure to captivate audiences both young and old.

Ireland and Luxembourg have the longest working week among 'old' Europe with an average of 39 hours while the French have the shortest at 35, Eurofound's European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) said today.

A controversial "party pill" that was the reason behind a series of raids nationwide last week, is still being sold in Head shops across the city, despite protest from Government officials and members of the public.