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THEIR NAME was inspired by an eccentric preacher from Kansas, they play music brought by the Scots and the Irish to the Southern US states, but their view of the world is shaped by the pioneer spirit of the true melting pot of North America - Canada.

The Galway Arts Festival has become such an enormous event (in fact it is now an international event of significance), that it is a bit like the Lisbon Treaty: You can’t see all of it; and while many of us see its value to the community, there are parts of it I don’t quite like.

The winners of a poster competition held by Cosgallen in conjunction with an anti-litter campaign were in category A: Chloe Tuffy, Carramore National School, Swinford, and in category B: Catriona Lynch, Aughadeffin, Kilkelly.

Fianna Fail has confirmed candidates for the up-coming local elections for Kilkenny County Council for the Kilkenny, Piltown and Thomastown local electoral areas.

aTwo schools in Mayo are to receive funding for the purchase of ICT equipment for their classrooms, according to Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

The finest amateur drama talent in the country will head to Claregalway from tonight (Thursday) March 12 when the Claregalway Drama Festival gets under way at the local Leisure Centre.

Primary schools in Westmeath are gearing up for this year’s Awards of Science Excellence (AoSE). Last year 15 Westmeath schools received the awards, and it is hoped many more schools will get involved this year.

Seventeen teaching posts may be lost from 15 national schools throughout the county for this coming academic year, according to a provisional list issued by the Department of Education this week, which based its figures on pupil enrolment returns from schools and the operation of the staffing schedule.

“IN THE hip hop world I am a dissenter,” declared the Canadian rapper Buck 65 when I interviewed him in 2007, and this dissenting voice is returning to Galway.

Four Westmeath schools have spent over €100,000 each renting prefab units, and a further five schools over €50,000 each, according to information obtained from the Department of Education this week.