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The lead drinking water crisis is the city’s second such crisis in a year. While we are told it is confined to specific areas, it is still a cause for concern because it has even more serious implications for public health than cryptosporidium.

You have possibly seen the falafel stall at our Galway markets; Oranmore, Moycullen, and Galway city. You will also see it at most music festivals and you may even see it on some TV and film sets. You may have seen it and passed by, wondering what exactly it is, and would I like it?

A pioneering language project, whereby people volunteer their time to teach conversational English to new migrants in their community, is looking to establish centres throughout County Westmeath.

Dirty jokes, ribaldry, irreverence, bad behaviour, wine, women, and song were all in a day’s work for a mediaeval bard and the stories he would write and tell.

AMONG BIRDS, the cuckoo is the ultimate survivor. Often orphaned at an early age, the young chick will evict all other eggs from a host nest and encourage the host parents to bring it more food thus reaching maturity at a more rapid rate.

Fifty years ago today, a Dutch KLM Super-Constellation airliner named Hugo De Groot crashed into the Atlantic, about 100 miles off the Conamara coast, with the loss of 99 lives. The plane was en route from Amsterdam via Shannon with eight crewmen and 91 passengers. Nobody survived. It was the worst disaster involving a single plane in the history of commercial aviation up to that point.

JAZZ MUSICIANS from Holland, Japan, the USA, and Scandinavia, will be converging on this city for the Galway Jazz Festival 2008 which runs from Thursday November 20 to Sunday 23.

Quirke’s has been involved in the furniture business for long enough to know how their customers prefer to shop and buy, and appreciates how manufacturing trends, personal taste and room sized can all influence what we are currently putting in our homes.

THE SPIRIT and the extraordinary music of the late, great, and much missed Rory Gallagher will be heard loud and clear when Sinnerboy play the Róisín Dubh.

If anyone thought that all a country need do to preserve its freedom when its neighbours are at war is to proclaim its neutrality, then they have only to look hard at what happened to several European countries at the beginning of World War II. Ladies and gentleman of the whinge brigade, neutrality isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.