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Three Buccaneers players have been included in Ireland squads for summer international matches. With virtually the full Ireland 15 heading off with the British and Irish Lions to South Africa and Leinster playing in this weekend’s Heineken Cup final, many fringe players get an opportunity to stake their claims for future selection.

They must be the most travelled band in the world! And they’re at it again with a ‘one night only’ and long awaited return to Athlone when they appear in the Radisson Hotel on the bank holiday Saturday of May 30.

A fundraising quiz will take place in Dans Tavern on May 29 in aid of the Niall Mellon Trust.

On Monday the public will have a rare opportunity to hear some of the Volvo Ocean sailors’ life stories.

GALWAY’S SECOND annual African Film Festival takes place this Sunday, starting at 11am in the Town Hall Theatre, showing films from South Africa, Kenya, and Senegal, and all events are free.

The promotions firm once headed by the late entertainer Joe Dolan has been hit with a bill of almost €4 million in unpaid tax and penalties.

On Friday July 3, Athlone Leisure World will host a bowling night in aid of EIL (Educational and Intercultural Learning). EIL is a non-profit intercultural organisation, which provides the opportunity for Irish volunteers to work alongside local people in the areas of conservation, education, welfare, community development, and health.

AUSTRALIA’S CIRCA company has wowed Galway Arts Festival audiences for each of the last two years with their breath-taking displays of physical grace and virtuosity. Their new show, Furioso, which marks Circa’s third festival appearance, will be eagerly awaited.

WHEN HE was 10, pianist Neil Cowley performed a Shostakovich concerto to a packed auditorium at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. A few years later he turned his back on a place at the Royal Academy of Music to tour the world with The Brand New Heavies and Gabrielle.

THROUGHOUT TODAY and this weekend the Galway Film Fleadh will be in full swing, screening feature films, premieres, documentaries, shorts, and animation, in this, its 21st year.