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Galway’s arts scene lost one of its most colourful personalities last week with the sudden death of Connor Maguire, my erstwhile comedy sidekick and long-time friend. As Maguire & McBride, or in tandem with Eamonn and Fiona Kelly in The Comedy Cumann, we regaled audiences at Cúirt, the Galway Arts Festival and other occasions and locations for many years.

Calls to reinstate Rag Week by Supermac’s founder Pat McDonagh, show a “lack research as to the health and social consequences” of the controversial event.

Relationships between Newcastle residents and students have reached “an all time low” with locals threatening to organise a picket at NUI, Galway in protest over alleged anti-social behaviour.

Relationships between Newcastle residents and students have reached “an all time low” with locals threatening to organise a picket at NUI, Galway in protest over alleged anti-social behaviour.

With government agencies such as the Western Development Commission suggesting there should be a focus on education as part of the push to create jobs and growth in the west it is clear that colleges such as GMIT Castlebar are of huge significance for the area.

The threat of an increase in registration fees and a cut to maintenance grants has prompted the NUI Galway’s Student Union to take action by launching a nationwide e-campaign which aims to provide students with a platform to air their views and to lobby local TDs.

Carlow IT’s Student Union President and last year’s captain of the Senior Men’s Football Team Aindreas Doyle (22) was fined for urinating in a local pub in July.

OVER THE next four months NUI, Galway and GMIT will battle it out in a series of contests for Head2Head 08/09, with the aim of winning the coveted title of Galway’s Best College!

The history of student activism is heroic, forceful, naive, idealistic, and often bloody.

A significant rise in public order offences since the beginning of the college term has been reported by gardai and residents across the city, resulting in an Garda Siochana directing extra resources to deal with the anti-social behaviour.