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Irish singer-songwriter, Ultan Conlon, will play in Róisín Dubh on Saturday June 3.

Kenny Deery’s driving history is as varied and fast moving as his role as CEO of Galway Chamber. The champion of Galway business showed his real ambition with his first car, a maroon 95 G reg Ford Fiesta, a welcome sight on the roads of his native Achill Island.

Current Car — Fans of the Inbetweeners TV series and movies might be mistaken for thinking Deputy Naughton’s latest job title as Government Chief Whip refers to her ministerial car, alas it doesn’t. The Oranmore native drives her own modest eco-friendly KIA Nero and admits she had very little interest in cars. Hildegarde’s first set of wheels was an Opel Corsa, purchased from her mother, later to be traded for an Opel Astra.

Insider understands the job of opposition politicians: it is to make you feel miserable. Their thinking is as follows; no matter what condition the country is in, we must give the impression that things are a lot worse than they are, and if we can convince enough people that the country is ‘gone to hell in a handcart’, then we can pick up some extra votes which will help us at the next election.

Harps Together Lá na Cruite Harp Day 2022 takes place on Saturday October 15 with live and online events planned all over the world. For the sixth year in a row, Irish harpers extend a warm invitation to harpers everywhere to join with them in celebrating the 1000-year-old Irish harping tradition.

Starting in September, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three online poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

THESE ARE changing and exciting times for Resurgam, the Galway project based vocal ensemble. Already regarded as the premier such ensemble in Ireland, its new general manager, Vlad Smishkewych, has ambitions to make them a force across the European continent.

GALWAY VOCAL ensemble, Resurgam, the premiere project-based professional choir in Ireland, will perform a pre-Advent concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

NICK CAVE, Leonard Cohen, Julian Lennon, Ray Davies, Louise Wener, Graham Parker, Gil Scott Heron...there is a tradition of singer-songwriters turning their hand to fiction via the novel or short story, and to that list we can now add Declan O’Rourke.

WITH THE return of live music and concerts, there is a sense of optimism and possibility again, not to mention a determination to make up for the lost time enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.