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The Galway based actor, writer, and musician Aindrias de Staic has won a ThreeWeeks Editors’ Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his new show The Year I Did The Leaving.

Connacht’s hardened approach to gaining Heineken Cup qualification gets its first big test tomorrow night when the Magners League season opens.

Connacht Senior League action kicks off tonight (Thursday) when Galwegians host city rivals Corinthians at Crowley Park (6.30pm).

Connacht’s hardened approach to gaining Heineken Cup qualification gets its first big test tomorrow night when the Magners League season opens.

TWO AWARD-winning Enda Walsh plays are currently running on two Irish stages; The Walworth Farce in Galway and The New Electric Ballroom in Dublin.

Julie Felix, one of the all time greats of the 60s folk music boom, is about to embark on her annual tour of Ireland, following her 2008 tour, which was a complete sell out of at all venues -including The Passionfruit Theatre on Thursday October 1.

Dublin band Codes are set to play support to The Flaws at Castlebar’s brand new music night at Bar Ritz this October. Finbar Hoban is asking you to pick a new name for the show at Bar Ritz on Saturday October 17th, those who feel they have the best name of the new show can e-mail suggestions with your name and details to [email protected] by Wednesday September 30. The winner will receive €100 in cash for their efforts.

Galwegians prop Peter Bracken has accepted an offer to join Magners League side the Dragons.

Two of the best known newlyweds in literature arrived in town to launch this year’s RoolaBoola children’s arts festival at the Linenhall Arts Centre last Friday evening. No strangers to launching things, the Owl and the Pussycat docked their beautiful pea-green boat in Castlebar after a monumental journey back from the land where the Bong-tree grows, stopping off in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Spain and Achill — we know, we’ve seen the postcards they’ve been sending to the Linenhall over the past weeks.

The spectacular and dramatic scenery of Mayo will feature in a series of online videos on one of Australia’s top travel websites, encouraging thousands of potential Australian holidaymakers to consider Mayo, the west and the island of Ireland as their holiday destination for 2010. The online videos are being produced by Flight Centre, Australasia’s largest retail travel agency group.