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If you’re aged between 14-19 and interested in acting, graffiti, painting or sketching then check out Callan-Street-Arts (CSA) and their upcoming Open Day. CSA will be recruiting 16 young artists, actors and crew members to take part in an original and daring project this August - a live Graffiti and Theatre performance on the streets of Callan. This innovative project will see performers interacting with live graffiti and animation.

Terrible punishments awaited young transgressors in the Ireland of the 1950s. If a boy mitched from school he could end up in Letterfrack, the notorious so called industrial school, run by the Christian Brothers. It was a type of borstal, where, for almost a century, troubled boys were brutally chastened and subdued. Its grim, grey buildings still stand today, and if you pass them on a wet Connemara day, you wonder about the boys who were sent there from cities and towns around Ireland. Despite its change of usage to one of the foremost craft training centres in the country, it still looks a sad place to me. But back in the 50s and 60s its name struck terror in the hearts of most boys and youths. I remember seeing a boy handcuffed to a policeman sitting on the Dublin train. Word was whispered around the carriage that the boy was from Letterfrack. We all stared at him as if the poor fellow was an alien.

Accomplished broadcaster and producer John Quinn reveals that one month on, he is still recovering from the artistic delights of the successful Clarinbridge Arts Festival and pleads that funding for such events are not cut in the post-Budget gloom.

THERE WILL be plenty of laughs to be had in south Galway this weekend when the Clarinbridge Drama Group perform two one-act comedies.

VOYAGE, AN exhibition of marine photography by Fiona Belton, will be officially opened this Sunday at 4pm in Clarinbridge Antiques.