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This 1948 photograph was taken from the old RIC barracks which was opposite the Banba Hotel . The bit of a wall you can see in the immediate foreground was part of ‘The Lazy Wall’. There was a concrete seat running along the other side of this wall and it was there people known as the ‘Fámairí’ used to congregate, people mostly from farming families. When they had the harvest in, they would come to Salthill on holiday and often meet with the same people as last year. They would sit here and gossip, smoke their dúidíns and sometimes paddle in the sea beside them.

Athlone band, Macey South take to the stage in Karma Athlone on Sunday week, August 26.

NAOISE ROO, the Dublin singer-songwriter whose music Horslips drummer Eamon Carr called "atmospheric grunge cabaret", launches her multi-date '#WHORETOUR in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday September 24.

This week The Snug Bar has a line-up that will appeal to all tastes, starting on Thursday, November 5 with Good Riddance at 9.30pm.

Irish traditional music is one of the great survivors of history. Maybe it was because we are an island, way off on our own in the western Atlantic, and until the latter decades of the last  century, out of hearing from the mass cultural movements of popular cinema, radio and TV, especially the modern music from Europe and the US, that something distinctive has survived. As a boy I would only hear traditional music sessions in a few Gaelteacht areas, or from the welcoming Standún family in Spiddal, or at the Féiseanna at An Taibhdhearc, which was more memorable for the day off from school than it was for the music.

Whether it's the rugby, the soccer, the songs, or just the craic you're after this week, The Snug Bar has it covered. 

With the rugby world cup well underway, it’s time to watch the points stack up and the pints go down at The Snug this coming weekend! And of course there’s plenty of live music action to catch between sporting events too.