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FRESH FROM winning a Fringe First Award at Edinburgh, Sonya Kelly’s acclaimed one-woman show, The Wheelchair on My Face, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week for one night only.

NORTH AFRICAN and French films will feature strongly in the new Galway Film Society autumn/winter season programme, which runs from September 23 to December 9 at the Town Hall Theatre.

Ten influential journalists and an acclaimed cookbook writer from Sweden stopped off in Athlone earlier this week, as part of a gastronomy-themed visit to Co Westmeath and Ireland. They were here as guests of Tourism Ireland and Bord Bia.

Councillor Keith Martin of the Labour Party says he will canvass for the abolition of the Seanad when the promised referendum is called. Cllr Martin says that the upper house of the Oireachtas is beyond reform and a drain on the nation's resources.

Ten influential journalists and an acclaimed cookbook writer from Sweden enjoyed a gastronomy-themed visit to Galway earlier this week, as guests of Tourism Ireland and Bord Bia.

The Volvo Ocean Race will feature an all-female team for the first time since 2001-02 after global hygiene and forest company SCA announced they would enter a women’s crew for the next edition in 2014-15.

TomTom is rapidly expanding its local search engine, TomTom Places. The service has recently been introduced in Sweden, Austria, Norway, Spain, and is now available in Ireland.

Artist Maev Lenaghan asks “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Woods?” in her latest exhibition of prints and paintings, opening at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar, today Friday, August 3.

Supporting Women Entrepreneurs Mentoring and Business Seminar— an event being run by BPW Galway and the Chamber of Commerce, is now open for registration. The event will take place In the Salthill Hotel on September 14, from 11.00pm to 5.00pm.

The spin-off from this month’s Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Galway is expected to pump up to €100 million into the Irish economy.