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Shooting the Breeze with Willy Vlautin - songwriter, singer, novelist

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It all started with a trip to the Galway Races and a chance encounter with a lady who liked a few bets on the gee-gees. It was further compounded by another chance encounter, this time with two men, who offered a seat and good company in a crowded Galway city bar.

Foghorn Trio to bring US sounds to Monroe’s

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THE FOGHORN Trio are two Americans and a Québécois who play old time American folk, Appalachian trad, and Cajun music.

The Water Tower Bucket Boys @ Monroe’s Live

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THEY BEGAN busking on the street corners of Portland, Oregon, playing traditional old time and bluegrass, before graduating to square dances and bluegrass festivals along the west coast.

Work set to start today on €10.5m AIT sports arena

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Preliminary work is to start today [Friday] on the Olympic standard indoor sports arena at AIT, which is expected to cost in the region of €10.5 million.

Driving Miss Davey

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CATHY DAVEY was born into a prominent musical and artistic family as her mother is a sculptor and her father is the Celtic/classical composer Shaun Davey.

Galway city centre to become car free?

The centre of Galway could become a car free zone if the Department of Transport has its way.

Changing colours and cups of coffee

The White Mountains of New Hampshire are aflame this week. Trees of fiery orange and red entwined in a mix of russet and chocolate brown. The year is changing colours as the fall envelops the north east of America. “America is about to change colours politically as well,” says Theodore (Ted) S Sares, who now lives in the ‘Granite State’. He is a business consultant and also describes himself as a private investor. He would admit in a colourful burst of laughter that he is a millionaire, but he was a bigger millionaire before the financial crisis struck. Ted Sares could strike once too — and he could put together a one/two combination in the ring. He was a useful amateur light heavyweight with 130 contests under his belt. And he once closed the Digital Corporation business in Galway.

Home thoughts from abroad

It was a twofold mission — to do the best you could for yourself and to do the best you could for the folks at home. Margaret Craven was talking about emigration from Ireland the way it used to be in the 1960s. She knows. She left her native Letterard in Connemara as a teenager. She was then Margaret Connolly and, like thousands of others of her generation, the bells of emigration were tolling for her early in her life. She was speaking in Portland in the state of Maine in America last week. She is now a state representative for the Democrats in the state parliament in Maine; next week she will almost certainly be a state senator. She has an election next Tuesday and the bells are tolling for her Republican opponent. But last Monday it was the bells in the Church of St Dominick in Portland that tolled and told the story of the Irish in the state of Maine. And it brought together many elements of the Irish diaspora.

Bank robbers, children, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

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OWEN ASHWORTH, the man behind the lo-fi electro-indie project Casiotone For The Painfully Alone admits he feels a certain amount of anxiety about the possibility of starting a family.

Local handball duo win world titles

Kilkenny duo Michael ‘Ducksy’ Walsh and Ciáran Neary struck gold in the World Handball championships in Portland, Oregon, US over the weekend.

 

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