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A short story competition to be judged by award-winning writers, Thomas Morris and Wendy Erskine, is part of this year’s Wild Atlantic Words Festival.

Siamsa Seipeil, now in its eighth year, is delighted to welcome Phil Coulter, composer, producer and performer to Swinford. “Phil is the best-selling artist of his generation. He has written at least four titles that can be added to the ‘Irish songbook’ – the anthems ‘The Town I Loved So Well’ and ‘Ireland’s Call’ and the haunting ‘Scorn not his Simplicity’ and ‘Steal Away’. This is a unique opportunity to see a world-class artist in the unique and intimate venue that is Swinford Church.” Tickets are available now – and will sell quickly. Buy now, to avoid disappointment, online at www.swinfordgaa.ie and in the real world in O’Connell’s Pharmacy, The Gateway Hotel & Mellett’s newsagents. Or call Mick at 0876837564

Ballinasloe Town Band’s recent church gate collections at Ahascragh, Ballinasloe, Creagh, Clontuskert, and Killure reached a total of €2,330 and the town band thanks all those who contributed.

Following on from the success of last week’s Ladies Night, every Friday night from now on, The Venue Athlone's amazing cocktails will be on special of two for €10 for the entire night.

We are Fionn Crombie Angus and Jonathan Angus, probably best known around Galway for busking on Shop Street. We've been part of the local music scene, with Fionn playing his distinctive left-handed fiddle, and Jonathan backing him up on guitar, for five years, after moving from County Clare when Fionn finished secondary school.

KNEEHIGH THEATRE Company's Dead Dog In A Suitcase was one of the hottest tickets at this year's Galway International Arts Festival. Adapted by Carl Grose and composer Charles Hazlewood, it was a raucous adaptation of John Gay’s 18th century classic, The Beggar’s Opera.

THE BREAK-UP album - Blood On The Tracks, The Bride Stripped Bare, Rumours, Songs For Only The Lonely, Blue, Currents... - rarely do catharsis and creativity go so well and productively together.

GALWAY BASED designer Clodhna Hallissey was this week announced as the recipient of the 2019 Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary, which supports women theatre artists working in Ireland in the fields of design, directing and dramaturgy.

REVISIT, AN exhibition by Kathleen Furey, where the artist explores loss, memory and moments of realisation via her hometown of Galway, is running at the Town Hall Theatre bar.