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Film Club: The Black Balloon

Former Mullingar town council candidate, Brian Fagan, is preparing to travel to Haiti on behalf of GOAL.

The Galway Arts Festival has become such an enormous event (in fact it is now an international event of significance), that it is a bit like the Lisbon Treaty: You can’t see all of it; and while many of us see its value to the community, there are parts of it I don’t quite like.

The Galway Sri Lanka Project has launched a range of Christmas cards to raise funds for its ongoing work in areas of Sri Lanka devastated by the Christmas 2004 tsunami.

Sir William Gregory, a wealthy widower was 60, 35 years older than Augusta, when he first met her. It was at a cricket match at her home at Roxborough in the summer of 1877, to which he was invited. He was late, and sat at the only vacant place left at the table, beside Augusta. ‘Augusta wore a fashionable dress bought at Bon Marché in Paris, and a black and white straw hat decorated with corn ears and poppies. The usually plain, quiet, girl was noticeable and pretty.’ By the end of the day Sir William was smitten.

CÚIRT 2009 is now in full swing and one of the highlights still to look forward to is the reading, this Saturday in the Town Hall Theatre at 1pm, by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

The vice-President of the European Commission, Margot Wallström, will give a “town hall” style talk about the European Union at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) on Thursday September 10.