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FOUR GALWAY fiction writers will read stories which have been shortlisted in the RTÉ Francis McManus Short Story Competition at Sheridan’s Wine Bar this Monday at 8pm.

STARTING IN September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collections have been shortlisted for awards and discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry.

With a sell out crowd of 30,000 expected to head to Hyde Park on Sunday, there will be nowhere to hide for Mayo as they aim to dethrone Fergal O’Donnell’s defending Connacht champions on their home patch. Ten years ago O’Donnell was the man who lifted the Nestor Cup in the same venue on a sweltering Sunday evening when a late, late Gerry Lohan goal had primrose and blue ribbons hanging from the old trophy for the year at the end of one of the games of the ages.

THE 2011 Over The Edge Summer Open-mic, part of the Westside Arts Festival, takes place at the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Tuesday at 6.30pm.

Connacht have made an historical breakthrough in Irish rugby with the junior XV claiming their first interprovincial crown.

A confident Connacht have high hopes in this year’s Junior Interprovincial Rugby Championship which opens on Saturday when they host Ulster in Tuam RFC (2.30pm).

THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host poetry workshops in May, facilitated by the acclaimed Galway poet Kevin Higgins.

POET AND short story writer Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes for beginners at the GMIT.

GALWAY WRITERS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road, in March. Bookings are now being taken.

THE GALWAY Technical Institute will hold creative writing workshops for beginners and experienced and bookings are now being taken.