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Galway Folk Festival is delighted to reveal its programme for 2024, featuring an exceptional line-up of world-renowned artists and brilliant Irish acts. Returning for its third edition, the festival will take place from Wednesday, June 5, to Sunday, June 9, showcasing the best of folk, roots, and traditional music in venues across Galway city.

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Three recently retired primary school teachers were honoured by their peers at an event in The Bounty hosted by the Athlone-Moate INTO committee.

Sean Canney Independent TD has called for a review of the criteria for the allocation of Special Education Teaching (SET) Hours to National Schools following the allocation of hours to National Schools by the Department of Education this week.

Waiting outside the office of the Irish Times’ managing director, one might expect a snotty Moneypenny to usher you into a dark, wood-panelled study where a stern Judi Dench as M, in James Bond, will be enthroned at a leathered desk, waiting to receive, with a thousand-yard death stare.

Connacht will be hoping to avoid their sixth successive defeat when they host Munster at the Sportsground on New Year’s Day.

Biccaneers disappointing start in the Energia All-Ireland League continued with a fourth straight defeat when going down 45-19 to Old Belvedere in their Division 1B game played in front of a decent attendance at Dubarry Park on Saturday.

Jimmy Duggan who passed away this week at the age of 93, was once described as “the best pound-for-pound hurler in Ireland.”

Pat and Una McDonagh received the Outstanding Contribution to Sponsorship Award as the 2023 Irish Sponsorship Awards that were held in Dublin last Thursday.

There has been only one topic of conversation in the city this week — and that is the fall-out from the incidents that took place over a few days last weekend. Because individuals have appeared before the courts in relation to those events, I am precluded from commenting specifically on them. However, my points this week will be based on the generality of the decline of behaviour on the streets of our main cities and towns, and what we need to do to make sure they are the exception rather than the norm. There is a real fear that someone’s life may be lost, whether a participant or an innocent bystander, as some incidents spill over into the public domain.