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Tributes were paid yesterday to the former Connacht Tribune editor John Cunningham, who passed away on Tuesday.

It has been a long time since a Galway band has made a major impression outside of its hometown - close to 20 years in fact, back in the heady days of the early 1990s.

Mt Temple Golf Club had a successful Senior and Junior Scratch Cup on Sunday September 18 which was kindly sponsored by Teligence.

IT HAS been a long time since a Galway band has made a major impression outside of its hometown - close to 20 years in fact, back in the heady days of the early 1990s.

DERMOT BOLGER’S acclaimed recent play, The Parting Glass comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday May 31 and Wednesday June 1. This one-man play, performed by Ray Yeates, about a returned emigrant’s experience of contemporary Ireland in the boom to bust years, has been a hit in Dublin and New York, and now embarks on a tour of Ireland.

STARTING THIS Sunday at 9pm, the Róisín Dubh will begin its new Open Mic nights in the upstairs bar. This new weekly night takes its inspiration from the classic open mic format.

STARTING THIS Sunday at 9pm, the Róisín Dubh will begin its new Open Mic nights in the upstairs bar. This new weekly night takes its inspiration from the classic open mic format.

A Westmeath man lost his life in a drowning accident in his flooded quarry after loaning his water pump to flood victims in Athlone, an inquest in Tullamore has heard.

The death has taken place earlier this month of Ms Mary ‘Ma’ O’Driscoll, the much loved Lady Dean of Residence at NUIG until her retirement. Her home at Taylor’s Hill, opposite the school, was a great meeting place for female students, who might have wanted nothing more than a cup of tea in a friendly home, or a sympathetic listener to a struggle with exams, a landlord, or boyfriends.

When you think of Irish rock and indie, the traditional strongholds for major talent to emerge have nearly always been Dublin and Cork. Yet the last few years has seen a plethora of high quality bands emerge from other areas of the country and a growing willingness among the public to support them.