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Galway architects, designers, students, teachers, and activists who would like to show their work and share ideas with other creative people are sought for PechaKucha Night Galway.

Do you ever wish you could communicate better?

Galway Refugee Support Group held a human library event at Westside Library earlier this week to mark Galway’s Social Inclusion Week.

On Monday March 4 1895, Bridget Cleary, walked up a hill to Kylenagranagh, the home of her father’s cousin Jack Dunne, who lived with his wife Kate, to sell eggs. The Dunne’s house, less than two miles from her slate-roofed labourer’s cottage at Ballyvadlea, Co Tipperary, was near an ancient circular mound of earth, or a ring fort, still known in rural Ireland as a ‘fairy fort’. Maybe it was because of the location of his house, or because of his skill as a story teller, a ‘Shanachie’, and that he had a limp, that Dunne had the reputation for being ‘an old man who is fairy-ridden’. People believed the local legend that he was once ‘chased up to his home by a man in black, and a woman in white’. He had knowledge of incantations, charms, and spells, and was sometimes consulted for a cure for animal or female sicknesses.

The hottest ticket in town to the 36th Westport Arts Festival is expected to be Glen Hansard’s October 11 performance in the intimate surroundings of Matt Molloy’s Yard Bar. A paltry total of 80 tickets to see one of Ireland’s finest and best-known singer-songwriters in the hallowed venue run by Chieftains flautist Matt Molloy will be up for grabs today (Friday) exclusively on westportartsfestival.com.

The worst thing about looting (apart from the obvious illegality of it and the fact that you never get a bag) is that as soon as you leave the shop at pace, you immediately invalidate any guarantee or warranty rights for the products you have just pilfered and so you end up at home with a pair of Converse runners that you’ve nicked without checking to see if both of them are the same size. Or if the 52-inch plasma telly which you and your mates have just carried down the High Street is actually HD or just HD Ready and therefore no good for sitting back and watching your mates rioting on Sky News when you can’t make out the faces. Oh, the hazards of looting. And here were we all this week thinking that these people who looted are actually at home enjoying the fruits of their labours. You see, looting is so spontaneous. It is like impulse buying, but just sped up by about 10 times.

The worst thing about looting (apart from the obvious illegality of it and the fact that you never get a bag) is that as soon as you leave the shop at pace, you immediately invalidate any guarantee or warranty rights for the products you have just pilfered and so you end up at home with a pair of Converse runners that you’ve nicked without checking to see if both of them are the same size. Or if the 52-inch plasma telly which you and your mates have just carried down the High Street is actually HD or just HD Ready and therefore no good for sitting back and watching your mates rioting on Sky News when you can’t make out the faces. Oh, the hazards of looting. And here were we all this week thinking that these people who looted are actually at home enjoying the fruits of their labours. You see, looting is so spontaneous. It is like impulse buying, but just sped up by about 10 times.

The Dominican College Taylor’s Hill class of ‘89 will hold a reunion on Tuesday August 30.

A debate on traffic in O’Growney Drive proved inconclusive at Tuesday’s meeting of Mullingar Town Council, with members and council executive divided on the best solution for the area.

FRENCH CHANTEUSE Caroline Moreau comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week with her compelling new show Amours toujours etc... in which she applies her powerful vocal sensibility to a range of fascinating and eclectic material – some new, some familiar – which she will sing in French.