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WHEN NILE Rodgers and Chic take to the stage of the Galway Arts Festival Big Top on Thursday July 19 there are two songs that audiences will be most looking forward to - 1978 mega hit ‘Le Freak’ and the following year’s ‘Good Times’, one of the most influential pieces of music ever recorded.

ONE IS the former manager of the MC5 and a man about whom John Lennon wrote a song. The other is former international drug trafficker who has appeared on record sleeves by The Super Furry Animals.

As dawn broke over Eyre Square on Wednesday morning, Galway found itself unoccupied. After yet another request by the Galway City Council last week for the Occupy Galway group to dismantle its ‘tent city’ on the edge of Eyre Square had been rejected, gardai and council workers arrived around 4.30am to clear the last of the Occupy Ireland sites. It would appear, from Garda reports, that Occupy Galway was itself occupied by only six people at the time.

With just two weeks to go before DruidMurphy kicks off at the Town Hall Theatre, Druid’s general manager, Tim Smith, takes us behind the scenes of the company’s biggest project to date.

On that terrible cold night of April 14 1912, in the North Atlantic, the Titanic was sinking head first into a freezing, calm sea. It had struck an iceberg 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. And was fatally wounded. The incessant bip bip bip SOS call for help from the wireless telegraphist Jack Phillips and his assistant Harold Bride was interspersed with more dramatic calls for help: “We are putting passengers off in small boats. Women and children in boats, cannot last much longer”.

Two lucky Big Money Game TV gameshow winners from Kilkenny and their guests jetted off to New York City on Friday September 30 for a six-day luxury break.

Devious Theatre is making a return visit to Cleeres Theatre for its fourth production of this year, Bash: latter day plays by Neil LaBute.

Three lucky Mayo winners and their guests will jet off to New York City this Friday on a trip of a lifetime thanks to the National Lottery’s Big Money Game Scratch Card and associated TV game show.

Danceworld is the west coast’s largest and most successful academy of dance and performance. Hosting more than 250 dancers with classes in Ballina, Castlebar, and Westport, Danceworld has gone from strength to strength, quickly establishing itself as a leader in the provision of entertainment and talent, with a proven track record of the highest standard representing the evolving trends of entertainment, fashion, music, styles of dance, and attitudes.

Lisa Kiernan from Mullingar was chosen to represent Westmeath in the Dublin Marathon having won the popular vote in the Spar Spartan challenge. Lisa completed the gruelling Frank Duffy 10 mile race in the Phoenix Park on August 20 in a fantastic time of 1:49 which built on her Irish Runner five mile time of 53 minutes.