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The Faith Christian Fellowship, one of Galway’s biggest and longest established African churches has moved to new premises and will be holding a series of new events and services.

In January this year Louisburgh potter and artist Anthony O’Brien travelled to Tatiko, a small village in northern Nigeria to film the traditional potters at work. The Tatiko potters are all women, who work without potters' wheels, kilns or any specialised equipment. The pottery they make is for everyday use, for cooling water, storing oil and grain, and for cooking over the open fire. But what makes their pottery so special is that it is stunningly beautiful, finely decorated in a rich red clay. There are some 50 women potters in Tatiko, making hundreds of pots every week, which are all sold in the local market. People come from all over northern Nigeria to buy their work.

Preparations are under way for the annual National Grandparents Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine on Sunday September 11. Upwards of 15,000 pilgrims are expected to Knock on one of the shrine’s busiest days of the year. Archbishop Michael Neary from Tuam will celebrate Mass at 3pm, which will be preceded by the Anointing of the Sick at 2pm and followed by the Rosary.

It’s a relatively unassuming building on the outside, and many people who walk past the recently-opened Kilkenny Community Church in Irishtown are possibly not even aware that it’s there.

In the early 1950s a group of people got together to come up with ideas for extending the tourist season. They decided to focus on traditional Irish cultural events throughout the country, often with a local flavour, and they called the project An Tóstal. A committee was set up in Galway and they came up with the concept of an All-Ireland Currach Racing Championships. Nothing like this had ever been done before, so it took quite a bit of organisation.

AMONG THE literary luminaries gracing this year’s Cúirt festival is Dutch author Gerbrand Bakker, winner of last year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Twin.

A man serving a sentence in the UK for controlling prostitution and money laundering has been ordered to pay €2.2m or face another 10 years in prison.

A 49-year-old man serving a sentence in the UK for controlling prostitution and money laundering has been ordered to pay €2.2m or face another ten years in prison.

THE NIGERIAN born, Galway based, singer-songwriter Shaday, will launch her new album UNLEASHED...this is Mee with a concert in the Radisson Blu Hotel’s live lounge.

IN 2002 Israeli producer and engineer Shay Leon launched his professional recording studio Shay’s Studio in Leitrim village, outside Loughrea.