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Primal Scream have had a busy few years, writing and arranging new songs while also touring their seminal 1991 album Screamadelica, but the work has paid off with More Light, a dark, richly layered album which is arguably their best work in years. If you want to hear it live, you’re in luck — the band will play in Leisureland, Galway, on October 26.

LotusEater are a four piece trip/rock band who will perform at the Roscommon Arts Centre gallery as part of their ongoing collaboration with artist Aoibheann Greenan. The band’s performance will incorporate the costumes and props that have, up until that point, acted as sculptural assemblages in the gallery space. The band will activate the works within the space and will be the closing act for Greenan’s solo exhibition in the gallery space.

MEP for Ireland North West and member of the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee, Jim Higgins, has welcomed proposed EU measures announced this week to limit the over-fishing of North Atlantic mackerel stocks.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane is urging people to check their European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) and make sure it is not out of date before they travel this summer.

LotusEater is the title of an ongoing collaboration between Aoibheann Greenan and a Dublin-based band of the same name. The project explores various levels at which the work can be experienced and disseminated, and will take multiple forms; an immersive installation consisting of sculptural assemblages, props, and costumes; a one-night music performance. The exhibition will evolve as works are added throughout the exhibition’s duration culminating in the LotusEater performing in the gallery space.

ONE OF the most acclaimed Irish shows of recent years makes a welcome visit to the Town Hall from Thursday June 13 to Saturday 15 at 8pm.

Galway, and the west of Ireland generally, is likely to be the area of the State most at risk of losing an EU seat before the next European elections, which take place in 2014.

FROM DIFFERENT views of Galway, to Icelandic landscapes, to the work of GMIT students, a host of exhibitions in Galway city and county open, or have just opened, this week.

WHO IS Afraid of The Big Bad Woods? is the intriguing title of Maev Lenaghan’s exhibition in the University Hospital Galway Arts Corridor.

THE 2012 visual arts programme for Galway Arts Centre proved successful in 2012, running a selection of critically acclaimed exhibitions showcasing emerging, mid-career and prolific artists, working in a variety of mediums.