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The Alan Kerins African Projects, the charity for creating sustainable living in Zambia, has been named as one of the GAA’s Charities of the Year for 2009/2010.

Renowned Irish Times journalist and poet Gerard Smyth will be on hand to officially launch the 2009 Clifden Community Arts Week programme which boasts an unforgettable line-up of national and international talent.

IRISH FOLKSINGER Liam Clancy, the man Bob Dylan called “just the best ballad singer I’d ever heard in my whole life”, is now the subject of a major documentary feature.

The countdown has begun to the Westport Arts Festival which is due to take place from October 2 to October 11.

DURING THIS time of economic recession we all need a good laugh and chortles galore are on the way to the city when the Galway Comedy Festival takes place from October 21 to 25.

How WB Yeats changed his wife’s name to George, and annoyed his lifelong friend Lady Gregory as a result, is one of the lighter topics to be explored during this year’s 15th Autumn Gathering.

A moving and courageous book by a Castlebar man who is one off Ireland’s best known TV personalities, will be launched in Castlebar Library on Friday September 18 at 8pm.

Tullogher and James Stephens met on Tuesday last in the ladies junior football championship replay at St Kierans College and the game proved to be a thriller with the result in the balance right to the end.

The funeral has taken place of 15-year-old Niall Keenan, who tragically lost his life at the weekend following a road traffic collision in the Killucan area.

Slightly later than advertised, despite Ryanair’s usual record of arrival before time, the familiar figure of Michael O’Leary strode into Ireland West Airport Knock last Tuesday morning with European flag in hand, which he quickly draped over the podium at the head of the room. Along with O’Leary was European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tanji. The two men on first glance appear as strange bedfellows for the Yes campaign, especially when Commissioner Tanji constantly mentions his support for passenger rights in relation to air travel, something that O’Leary tells the assembled crowd is something he will vehemently fight against.