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TOMMY TIERNAN will launch the literary journal ROPES Unravelled, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature in the Town Hall on Thursday April 23 at 5pm.

ONCE AGAIN we reach the season of goodwill and of exchanging gifts to show our appreciation and love for those whose presence we cherish.

World War 1 is the backdrop for the London box office success War Horse. It’s the story of bravery, loyalty and a mutual bond that grew between a young farm boy and his horse. But it is the highly imaginative and skilful way that the story is presented that has caught London’s imagination. The play is based on a book by Michael Morpurgo; and a recent acknowledgement by the public of the role animals have played in war, from the horse, the mule, the dog, the pigeon, even the humble glow worm used by sappers in No Man’s Land as they drew maps in the dark*. During the merciless, and relatively recent Battle of Stalingrad, (July 1942 to February 1943), 207,000 horses were killed on the German side alone (the human cost was an unimaginable one million). Animals are still used to help solders navigate rough terrain, or for dolphins to seek out mines, and dogs to sniff out contraband.

THE ‘GIORGIONE’ in the title of Tracking Giorgione (Brandon), the ambitious novel by Hungarian born writer Thomas Kabdebo, is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italian Renaissance painter and contemporary of Leonardo Da Vinci.

CÚIRT IS primarily a literary festival, but it always makes room for other events and this year’s festival promises a truly original contemporary dance show in the form of The Word Is Moving.

FIVE WRITERS will read at this year’s Cúirt Festival Over The Edge showcase reading in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday April 23 at 11am.

The body of a young Galway woman discovered in Cameroon almost a week ago, was flown home to Ireland yesterday.

The Children’s Remembrance Day Committee at University Hospital Galway is inviting parents and families who have experienced the death of a child before birth, shortly afterwards or at a later stage to remember their loved ones at a special Mass of Remembrance which will take place in June.

Many years ago I found the courage to ask the late Lady Molly Cusack -Smith whether she had posed nude for the famous artist Augustus John during his many sorties into Galway and the west. She looked at me very hard for some time. Then said in a very cross voice: “How dare you, HOW DARE YOU ask such a impertinent question!”