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After a night’s entertainment at The Magic Parlour at Hotel Westport I was left speechless at the mind-blowing magic which I witnessed by former Las Vegas magician Dan O’Donoghue. The Magic Parlour is the only show of its type in Ireland, where guests are treated to card tricks, magic, and storytelling while enjoying a four-course AA Rosette award winning dinner.

The continuing development of strong links between Irish and Chinese businesses has received a further boost with the announcement of a strategic partnership with a projected value of €3m, between Invention Services, a Galway-based innovation and business supports company, and Asia’s biggest hand-tool vendor Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co Ltd.

Galway novelist Julian Gough has scripted the ending for the multi-million selling computer game Minecraft, which was recently launched in Las Vegas.

The SEMA specialist motor show in Las Vegas had a special Toyota surprise for visitors when it opened last Tuesday. The Japanese carmaker is hosting an array of full-blooded customised versions of the iQ, that take the style-setting urban car into a new world of pumped bodywork and pimped interiors.

Chico and Rita is the next screening at Ballina Film Club on Tuesday night November 1. Set in Cuba in 1948, Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey – in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero – brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love. Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and Catalan designer Javier Mariscal create a passionate, animated Cuban love story. Admission is €5.

Following a hugely successful opening and five week run in the Olympia in Dublin with his brand new show Keith Barry - Eight Deadly Sins, Keith returns to The Royal Theatre Castlebar for one night on Saturday January 7 2012.

WITH THE original 1985 film being so iconic and attracting a huge cult following it was a big task to produce a film that would live up to the name of Fright Night, and although there have been mixed reactions, the directing and of course the casting of yummy Colin Farrell helped to make a remake which is a great watch and I will certainly be getting the DVD when it is released.

A new Monday night residency at Kytelers Inn, Kieran Street, sees the combination of local politician Andrew McGuinness, who spent many years playing in a band, and well known musician Davey Cashin from The Kilkennys.

A doctoral fellow at the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC) at NUI Galway, Ciara Fitzgerald, was presented with second prize in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Graduate Student Literature Review Prize at their annual meeting in Las Vegas recently.

The Connacht College of Design is offering an Associate Diploma Course in Interior Design in Galway (Oranmore). It begins next week and is taught by well-known interior designer Amanda Stuart.