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IN HIS first official engagement as Mayor of Galway, Pearce Flannery told the launch of the 29th Galway Film Fleadh, how, as a boy in Ballinasloe, he and his friends were thrilled to be cast as extras in the 1971 movie, Flight Of The Doves.

THIS YEAR saw Seán Keane release his first new album in almost a decade and he closes 2016 with a concert in The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday December 30 at 8.30pm.

Éadaoin Ní Mhaiciín, from Claremorris, won the fiddle competition at the recent Oireachtas Festival in Kilarney. The annual Oireachtas Festival is a mecca for lovers and performers of the traditional arts, and this year’s competitions again received a huge number of entrants aged from six years to 68. The range of competitions included storytelling, sean-nós dancing and singing, and the famous lúibíní competition in which two people perform a rhyming story through song.

MARTIN HAYES and Dennis Cahill just may be one of, if not the greatest, partnership in Irish trad. The duo, going strong since they met in Chicago in the 1980s, make a welcome return to Galway, to play the Róisín Dubh this month.

14 traditional music acts, 7 days, 1 winner.

John Quinn has received instructions to offer for sale by public auction No 1 Upper Fairhill Road, The Claddagh.

John Quinn auctioneers is offering No 1 Upper Fairhill Road for auction on August 17. The company will hold an open viewing at the property this Saturday July 30 from 1pm to 2pm.

John Quinn has received instructions to offer for sale by public auction No 1 Upper Fairhill Road, The Claddagh.

THE Kilfenora Céilí Band, one of the oldest céilí bands in the world, and former Riverdance leads Michael Donnellan, Michael Gardiner, and Laura Minogue, will join forces for a show at the Town Hall Theatre.

The Kilfenora Céilí Band will play The Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, on Saturday, February 27, with all funds raised being donated to The Children’s Language Development Preschool (CLDP) in Oranmore.