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Feargal Quinn's Retail Therapy is a new series for RTÉ One which sees retail guru Feargal Quinn offer his unique brand of advice to independent retailers throughout Ireland. Times have never been tougher and Feargal Quinn knows better than anyone how to survive a recession and remain successful in a highly competitive environment. Over six episodes the king of customer service will work with different shops in an attempt to transform their fortunes.

FRESH FROM the success of her two RTÉ series - Wonder Women and Working Girls - comedienne Katherine Lynch brings her crazy crew of Irish women to the Black Box Theatre as part of a national tour.

Ballinrobe Musical Society members, deep in rehearsal for their 2010 offering The Pirate Queen, have just received some stunning news – the musical geniuses behind Riverdance and Les Miserábles have confirmed they will attend the final performance of the show.

Dublin band Bats were formed in 2006, with the same intensity as Adebisi Shank, they could well be Ireland’s best kept secret. More bands like Bats need to write songs as snappy as the opener from their first EP Cruel Sea Scientist titled “Death to Kent Hovind”, heck it should be made compulsory. Despite the song being only just over a minute and a half long, this aggressive attack on the American’s young earth creationist does its job in portraying the incredibly black humour Bats convey in their music. Where Bats excel is in their approach to their song writing. So you get bursts of weird, almost pop, madness alongside heavier riffs and quirky, bouncy, little passages all mixed up with their unusual approach to vocals.

THE MULKERRIN Brothers, winners of the first RTÉ All-Ireland Talent Show, are about to embark on their first Irish tour which takes in dates in Galway and Castlebar.

The Royal Theatre welcomes back Neil Delamere to Castlebar this Christmas. Always a firm favourite for guaranteed comedy Neil Delamere is one of the top headline acts working in the Irish comedy scene today, and is one of the biggest factors in the huge success of RTÉ television’s hit show The Panel.

RTÉ NEWS reporter Conor Mark Kavanagh will read a selection of his poetry at the December Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday December 17 at 6.30pm.

A former FÁS manager who was at the centre of an RTÉ Prime Time programme last year has hit back at new allegations made in the media last week of mismanagement of funds in the organisation while he was working there. Eddie Hoban, speaking to the Mayo Advertiser this week, refuted the allegations that €1,980 was claimed by Castlebar Care for the Aged Social Economy Ltd for services that didn’t exist.

Speaking about her involvement in RTÉ’s health and lifestyle programme, Operation Transformation, Fine Gael’s Senator Nicky McFadden said the show presents her with an opportunity, not only to turn her unhealthy lifestyle around, but also to highlight the dangers such a way of life, if left unchecked, may pose.

Athlone Mixed National School is to take on Scoil Mhuire B&C, Stranolar, Co Donegal in the Christma Dday edition of RTE’s Test The Teachers.