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AMONG THE many attractions at the upcoming Baboró festival is There’s A Snail In The Garden, Dermot Carmody and Morgan C Jones’ hilarious live music and comedy show for children.

Galwegians will be asked what their idea of home is as part of when Denny ‘Home on Wheels’ takes to the road and specially created ‘homes’ will be popping up throughout the country on main retail streets.

The scenic village of Belcarra was a hive of activity on Tuesday night but it wasn’t the Tidy Towns judges who were due to visit this mild autumn night. Someone had the idea of turning the sacred church car park into a sex fest orgy.

RICHMOND FONTAINE, the Portland, Oregon, Americana band led by vocalist, songwriter, and novelist Willy Vlautin, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday October 16 at 8.30pm.

THE SAW Doctors will play the Warwick Hotel, Salthill, on Hallowe’en night, Saturday October 31 to promote the upcoming release of The Best of The Saw Doctors.

Ireland’s very own and hugely successful Three Tenors continue to be a major attraction at all venues and festivals all over Ireland and abroad and the show consistently achieves full houses in all leading venues. They come to the Athlone Springs on Friday October 16 for a charity night in aid of St Hilda’s, special needs school, Athlone.

I used to work with a journalist who when he’d receive phone calls from irate mothers bemoaning why their son’s courtcase was splshed across the paper bringing shame to the family, he’d calmly tell her “sure now Ma’am, wouldn’t it be worse if he came in and told ya he had cancer.” It was a ploy that inevitably worked as it proved the first point of agreement between the caller and himself. Always comparing your woe to something far worse is often a way of putting perspective on things. If you crashed your car, you could say, sure’ it’d be worse if someone was hurt, ‘tis only bent metal. If you stole somethng, you could say, arragh the way people are going on, you’d swear I killed someone.

Ghosts, zombies, vampires, demons, Michael Jackson, and all kinds of other strange beings will be taking to the streets of Galway’s ‘Latin Quarter’ on Friday October 30 and Saturday 31 for the city’s first Galway Abooo Hallowe’en Festival.

GALWAY-BASED playwright Christian O’Reilly, whose plays have been staged by Druid and Rough Magic, will see his latest play premiere at the Galway Theatre Festival in a production by Decadent Theatre Company.

On the day when the farming community brought their issues onto the streets of the county, Mayo Fine Gael TD, John O’Mahony, criticised the Fianna Fáil/Green Programme for Government for its failure to pay any attention to the needs of farmers.