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Feast on some festive lunch at The Ardilaun

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The Christmas festive season is in full swing on Taylor's Hill with festive lunches and dinners available in The Ardilaun hotel. Award winning head chef Ultan Cooke and his team have introduced a sumptuous three course Christmas menu for the month of December, to include a glass of wine and mince pies, all for €25 per person.

Temperance, teanga and throw-ins

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Though a feast day on the Catholic calendar since the 1600s, St. Patrick's Day only became a public holiday in Ireland in 1903. Prior to the early 20th century and a structured national approach to honouring the saint, the Briton was resurrected from time to time and pushed to the front of many campaigns. The feast day's events, which drew large crowds, were always managed either directly, or were heavily influenced, by the local Catholic church. That is not surprising, Patrick was a Christian after all. Many pre-Famine St Patrick's Day events were organised by the temperance movement, headed by Fr Theobald Mathew. The movement encouraged the Irish nation to pledge to abstain from alcohol for corporal and spiritual betterment, but sometimes with mixed results. The St Patrick's Day teetotallers procession through Castlebar in 1841 was not one of that organisation's high points. The march was to be a show of strength, an opportunity for the Rev Gibbons to display his and his members' accomplishments. Frustratingly for Gibbons, a large number of the group arrived to take up their places in the parade’s ranks while under the influence, having soundly violated their pledges. The non-teetotaller band abandoned the depleted parade midway through to join the town’s festivities, causing the temperance leaders to consider organising a teetotal band of their own that they could depend on.

A feast of short films at the Galway Film Fleadh

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DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS from Killing Bono's Martin McCann, and films starring Love/Hate's Peter Coonan and The Stunning's Steve Wall, will be seen at the Galway Film Fleadh's short film programme.

Alright The Captain to headline FEAST

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THE FEAST nights of metal, punk, and math-rock in the Róisín Dubh celebrat's its second anniversary with a show by the forward-thinking British post-rock trio Alright The Captain.

 

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