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The first man to cross the Australian outback was a Galwegian who lived in Dominick Street - Robert O’Hara Burke - and he will be remembered in his native city this weekend.

A brave Galway explorer who dared to venture into the harsh terrain of the Australian bush 150 years ago is to be honoured this weekend at City Hall and at the Galway City Museum.

born in March 1986, the second child of Seamas Freeman, Kinagha, Tooreen, and Ita Larkin, Loughrea. He was the second of three children and has an elder sister Louise, who is 28 and is a doctor based in Galway. His younger brother Cathal is 20 years. Hurling was in his blood from the start with as his father Seamus represented Tooreen in many senior finals throughout the seventies and eighties. Adrian started his education in Tooreen NS in 1991 before going on to Ballyhaunis Community School in 1999. He also went to Limerick IT between 2004 and 2009, where he qualified as a civil engineer.

One of pop music’s finest groups Crowded House will take to the stage in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Saturday May 29. Led by genius songwriter Neil Fin, Crowded House have been a critics and fans’ favourite for years with songs like ‘Fall At Your Feet’, ‘Weather With You’, ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’, all classic songs that have been the soundtrack to many people’s lives. Formed in 1985 in Melbourne, Australia, the band owes its original success to the Australian live music scene.

The Saw Doctors, who are just back in Ireland after sell-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza, and Boston at the House of Blues, have announced two more Galway concerts on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23, upstairs at Kelly's, to add to the previously announced Galway shows at the Bridge Street venue on June 1 and 2.

Cortoon Badminton Club captured All-Ireland glory last weekend by claiming victory in the Inter League finals at the Terenure Badminton Centre in Dublin.

One of pop music’s finest groups Crowded House will take to the stage in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, on Saturday May 29. Led by genius songwriter Neil Finn, Crowded House have been a critics and fans’ favourite for years with songs like ‘Fall At Your Feet’, ‘Weather With You’, ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’, all classic songs that have been the soundtrack to many people’s lives. Formed in 1985 in Melbourne, Australia, the band owes its original success to the Australian live music scene.

LORD BYRON once said “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” He was echoed in this by Doris Lessing who declared “Laughter is by definition healthy.”

BRENDAN PERRY, the co-founder of the world music/indie/ambient pop band Dead Can Dance will play the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 28 at 9pm.

“It’s 12.30am Melbourne time and I have an insatiable desire for an Irishtown ‘two battered sausage, beans and chips!’ Only a few people will get this. God bless the old days!”