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When I arranged to meet traditional music legend Frankie Gavin in a quiet corner of the Galmont this week, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d heard he had been seriously ill, had lost a significant portion of his body weight and that wonderful hair, but when he came around the corner, wrapped in a grey tweet coat and scarf, he was the same Frankie I’d ever known. Buzzing with energy and life, a head full of hair and keen to sit down for coffee and croissants to share the story of the last year during which he feared for his mortality.

A special double headliner gig takes place at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, December 10, as musical driving forces Steve Wickham and Jane Willow take to the stage on Dominick Street. The award-winning rock fiddler Steve Wickham is part of the Waterboys’ musical legacy that has spanned over 30 years.

Ireland’s ‘First Lady’ of country music, Susan McCann brings her very special ‘String Of Diamonds’ concert tour to Tuar Ard on Wednesday, November 2.

Sinéad Reidy from Athlone was among eight NUI Galway students and a special group of inspirational young people presented with the Gaisce Gold Award by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins recently for their civic engagement and personal development.

NICK CAVE, Leonard Cohen, Julian Lennon, Ray Davies, Louise Wener, Graham Parker, Gil Scott Heron...there is a tradition of singer-songwriters turning their hand to fiction via the novel or short story, and to that list we can now add Declan O’Rourke.

The Mayo Camogie senior team will play their first home league game of the season tomorrow afternoon when they welcome Kildare to Tooreen at 2pm.

The Mayo senior Camogie team got their first National League campaign in a number of decades up and running in a rainy Ballyforan on Saturday afternoon.

In his interesting biography of Éamon de Valera,* Diarmuid Ferriter wrote that in December 2000 gardaí seized 24 love letters from de Valera to his young wife Sinéad, which were being advertised for auction by Mealy’s of Castlecomer. It was believed that the letters were stolen in the mid 1970s from the de Valera family home. The owners who had bought them in the UK some years previously in an effort to ensure their return to Ireland, were unaware that they were stolen.

This Christmas, Roscommon Arts Centre presents two free family sing along events and wants you to join in the festive fun.

This brand new state of the art dental centre opened just three months ago, opposite Tesco Claremorris, but the combined experience of the professionals involved adds up to sixty years.