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Many of the shows at this year's Galway Comedy Festival are filling up quickly, but fear not! There's plenty more where that came from...

Three emerging local acts will take to the stage at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, August 23, as part of A New Noise, a night dedicated to the best of original music and rising talent.

In years past, the NDP would be a ‘shopping list’ of projects which the cabinet awarded funding to, often after intense local lobbying, but it is now more a broad-brush statement of which policy areas or government departments will have funding prioritised.

Over two days this week RTÉ Radio 1’s LiveLine programme was bombarded with callers demanding that the remains of former Bishop of Galway Eamonn Casey should be removed from their place of honour beneath Galway cathedral.

Women in Westmeath are urged to sign up for a major online webinar aimed at helping them to take care of their heart health.

MISE FRESHIN’ is an evening of new Irish beats featuring Cork-based improvised experimental group Fixity, with a live show based on the breakthrough hip hop instrumental album “Endtroducing, by DJ Shadow.” Knitting the show together will be DJ and musical mix master of Mise FRESHIN' RTE Radio 1 broadcasts, DJ Jack Dempsey McMahon [AKA DJackulate].

THERE ARE certain factors, without which, Galway International Arts Festival would be incomplete - the Big Top in the Fisheries Field, the extraordinary street spectacles, and the buzz around Róisín Dubh.

Why do girls give up sport?

Folk Americana group The Raines comprises of Ruth Dillon (vocals, guitar, ukulele) who has toured and recorded with the legendary vocalist Dolores Keane, is a former member of The Molly Hicks, and has three solo albums of her own. Juliana Erkkonen (fiddle and vocals) has been at the forefront of the Americana musical scene in Ireland and has released 7 albums with a diverse range of acts, and Yvonne Tiernan (vocals/ukulele/percussion) who has toured as lead singer with The Chieftains.

Athlone native, Lavinia Connell, and her partner, Jason Hassett, both of whom are members of the Irish Defence Forces, are hoping that their collective years of army experience will prove beneficial as they prepare to ascend the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.