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A Westmeath resident and his brother, who left a man brain-damaged after jumping on his head and kicking it after drink had been accidentally spilled during St Patrick’s Day celebrations, have been jailed.

The PDs may be about to be swallowed up into the bowels of Fianna Fáil, but if this happens, they will guarantee the Soldiers of Destiny the right to control the Galway County Council after the 2009 Local Elections.

Conway Savage makes everything sound easy. His forthcoming tour of Ireland came about because he “met some nice people who liked my stuff”; he records at home and distributes on his own label because it’s cheap and he likes “that home sound”; and there is no conflict between his solo work and that of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, with whom he has played piano for the past 15 years - “My stuff’s my stuff and then I’m called in to work with the Bad Seeds.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!” said the author Jane Austen. “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

The next time you go to post a letter or package, there is a good chance you may be affixing onto that envelope or parcel a stamp bearing the image of the great Galway trad group De Danann.

If you want to make this a year of cultural enlightenment, then why not visit the European capitals of culture 2009: Linz in Austria and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. If you want to make this a year of cultural enlightenment, then why not visit the European capitals of culture 2009: Linz in Austria and Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

Half Asleep: Julia Pallone exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre

The 2009 Local Election is little more than three months away and Fianna Fáil in Galway is in disarray.

Throughout the month of June, Ballina Arts Centre will host Half Asleep, an exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist, Julia Pallone. Through a variety of means, such as drawing, photography and installations, she explores a poetic vision of the world, a vision which is fragile and vulnerable.

“If Connaughton had only been named Sue or Seamus or Michael, I’d have had a chance, but to be called Paul, well that killed me in the polls.”