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A new survey conducted by Oxfam Ireland has revealed Irish people still intend to buy charity Christmas gifts this year, despite tightening their spending belts overall.

A frock swap evening will be hosted in Kilkenny city at cafe Esquires on High Street on Thursday August 20 where women can bring along their old clothes and swap them for something else.

THE PATRICK Kavanagh Poetry Award 2008 winner Geraldine Mitchell will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.

A frock swap evening will be hosted in Kilkenny city at cafe Esquires on High Street on Thursday August 20 where women can bring along their old clothes and swap them for something else.

Just Desserts, the annual dessert making competition to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight, takes place in the Galway City Museum on Thursday March 5 at 4pm.

Following on from the success of his first Mayoral Hootenanny, Mayor Malcolm Noonan has taken it upon himself to organise a second musical extravaganza in aid of the thousands of people displaced in earthquake-torn Haiti.

Music fans of all ilks will be pleased to hear that Lisa Hannigan is in Kilkenny and ready to rock Kytelers - well lull Kytelers - with her unusually soft and haunting voice on Wenesday July 8.

THE ARCTIC Monkeys will release their new single, ‘Crying Lightning’, through Oxfam Ireland’s shops in Cork, Ennis, Dublin, and Galway.

THE POET Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan will read for Over The Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday September 11 at 8pm.

This November and December, Oxfam Ireland is urging the people of Westmeath to choose their Christmas presents from its alternative gifts catalogue, Unwrapped.