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Former Athlone Town soccer player Stefan Feniuk is reported as “safe and well” and on his way home after he was caught up in the terror attacks yesterday (November 25) in Mumbai, India.

There is nothing to stop Galway hosting another stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race in the future, according to Volvo’s communications director Marcus Hutchinson.

AMONG THE estimable authors to ‘make the cut’ in Des Kenny’s recent lively compendium of 101 Irish Books You Must Read, is Sligo-born Jack Harte.

Official Green Dragon merchandise is now on sale in advance of the Volvo Ocean Race arriving in Galway next May.

This week Cadbury Dairy Milk is launching new Fair Trade chocolate. Cadbury Dairy Milk is becoming the first mass market chocolate to gain certification from Fair-trade Mark Ireland.

THE AMERICAN newspaper columnist and author Bill Vaughan once wrote about the Christmas and New Year period: “The optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

THERE WILL be a strong Asian flavour to this season’s Galway Film Society screenings, with movies from Iran, Turkey, India, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine to be shown, all dealing with historical and contemporary political issues.

Ireland’s entry in the Volvo Ocean Race, Green Dragon, is back in the water and preparing for Saturday’s in-shore racing in Singapore after the Christmas and New Year respite.

When it comes to rags to riches stories you either love them or hate them; some are just verging on nauseatingly sweet while others just strike the right balance between real-life grit and the hopelessly optimistic, Slumdog Millionaire falls into the latter category, thanks to the directorial expertise of Danny Boyle (Transpotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine) and Loveleen Tandan.