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Forty-six years ago, Cathal Dunne stood under the lights of Jerusalem’s Eurovision stage, charming Europe with his self-penned song Happy Man. This week, under very different skies, he stood once again in the spotlight—this time in the medieval town of Athenry in County Galway, promoting his deeply moving historical novel, Athenry – A Famine Tale of Love and Survival.

Our Taoiseach, Micheal Martin has been to the Israeli-Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. He is regularly updated by the Irish Consulate in Ramallah on the shocking level of violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers living in illegal settlements in these Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt), often supported by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Mr Martin knows exactly what is happening on the ground.

An emergency rally in solidarity with the people of Palestine will take place in Galway city centre on Saturday, July 27, from 2.45pm.

Galway's most popular race, the Streets of Galway 8k, takes place on Saturday (August 12) at 7pm.

With new Irish cinema, award winning world cinema, short films, panels, discussions, and masterclasses, the 35th edition of the Galway Film Festival will bring powerful, moving, funny and provocative storytelling from both emerging and renowned filmmakers to Galway for the 35th edition of the Galway Film Fleadh.

I have always been fascinated by maps, especially old maps. One of the most famous is the Tube map - better known as the London Underground map - a schematic transport map of the lines, stations and services of the London Underground, known colloquially as "the Tube", hence the map's name.

Following their sell out 2014 Irish tour, the Youth Group from Lajee Cultural Centre, Aida Camp in Bethlehem are back, embarking on a nationwide tour of Ireland.

It must have been an extraordinary sight in the 1860s to see Kylemore castle rise from a bog in the heart of Connemara’s Twelve Pins, barely a decade following the devastation of the Great Famine. More than 100 men were employed, some coming from as far away as Renvyle and further, at a handsome wage of seven to 10 shillings a week, turning rough, soggy land, only good for shooting wild fowl and for fishing in its nearby lakes, into a magnificent building. Today it stands more like a palace than a castle, and is still a show-stopper on the Letterfrack road.

Galway athletes were among the national medal winners at the 2022 Irish Life Health National Juvenile Track and Field Championships in Tullamore.