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Nathan Carter is one of the brightest young singing stars to hit Ireland for many years. Here is the story so far. Nathan was born in the city of Liverpool. At the age of four he found his love for music and was given a piano accordion, which he quickly mastered. At age seven, Nathan started to enter Fleadh Ceoil competitions in accordion and singing. At 15, he won the All Ireland title for traditional singing. Nathan was determined to seek a career in the music industry, and at the age of 16, decided to leave school and follow his dream. His début album Starting Out contained such country classics as ‘Working Man;’ ‘Look At Us;’ ‘40 Shades Of Green’ and Irish standards ‘Isle Of Innisfree;’ ‘Carrickfergus’ and ‘Erin Gra Moi Chroi’.

In the 1880s the Land War was at its height. It was a prolonged period of bitter civic unrest which pitted an unprotected peasantry against some ruthless landlords, who had the law and power of eviction at their disposal. Following the Great Famine a weakened tenant peasantry was easily removed from the land. It began a pitiful trail to the workhouse, and the emigrant ships. But as the century progressed the situation changed. The highly organised Irish National Land League supported evicted farmers; while members of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Westminster fought for legislation which would eventually see a redistribution of land to tenants.

The man who opened Connemara to the traveller, and built an infrastructure to encourage trade and commerce in what was a wilderness of bog, mountain, and a rocky sea coast, was the Scottish engineer Alexander Nimmo. He was originally commissioned to investigate the possibility of draining the bogs, and replace them with a landscape of arable land suitable for farming. But Nimmo was the original man who thought outside the box. In his report of 1812 he outlined the total neglect of the region which had about 30,000 inhabitants, mostly living along her coast, eking out a bare subsistence livelihood. But he saw huge potential in the natural wealth of Connemara for tourism, and limited industry. He reported that there were large quantities of fish in its lakes and sea, and abundant seaweed for manure and for the manufacture of kelp. Its agriculture was undeveloped, its bogs badly harvested. All this neglect could be remedied

Comprising of four musicians, King Twit were formed in the autumn of 2011.They are embarking on their first Irish tour with a 12-date jaunt around the country in support of their first set of recordings, Bicycle EP. They play guitar-based alternative folk rock pop in the vein of Captain Beefheart, Jonathon Richman, and the Shins.

BRIAN HOLTON is something of a one-man Tower of Babel. Among the languages he grew up with or learned are English, Scots, French, Greek, Latin, Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, and Chinese.

OVER THE last 13 years, British author David Mitchell has produced a series of stunning novels such as Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet.

Tony Burke Motors, Toyota and Lexus Dealership in Ballybrit, Galway, received a huge boost recently when it was crowned Franchised Retail Operation of the Year at the 2012 SIMI Irish Motor Industry Awards.

League of Ireland football returns tomorrow night with the newly named SD Galway FC making the short trip to Lissywoolen for a tussle with Athlone Town.

God never had any respect for the football transfer window. He feels it limits his options and you know how God is when it comes to having his will imposed on us mere mortals. But in assembling a football squad worthy of representing Heaven, he made one hell of a signing this week when he selected one of Galway’s most loved and most talented sportsmen. And like any football signing, his loss has left his family, friends, and supporters bereft.

Christmas lights in Belmullet