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That venerable institution of Midlands music - the Mullingar Choral Society - had its 43rd annual concert earlier this month, and where one might logically expect an element of august gravitas on the rostrum, director Fergus Carroll and the committee felt no compunction in sitting in front of a packed cathedral beneath the baton of the prodigiously talented 28-year-old Gavin Moloney.

That venerable institution of Midlands music - the Mullingar Choral Society - had its 43rd annual concert earlier this month, and where one might logically expect an element of august gravitas on the rostrum, director Fergus Carroll and the committee felt no compunction in sitting in front of a packed cathedral beneath the baton of the prodigiously talented 28-year-old Gavin Moloney.

Kia is set for a landmark year in its history. The three new models on their stand last Tuesday at the 81st Geneva Motor Show is testament to this. The all-new Kia Rio made its debut on the world stage in Switzerland. It was also joined by the all-new Kia Picanto small car is appearing outside Korea for the first time. In addition, the new Kia Optima Hybrid is being shown for the first time to a European audience.

DRAMA, FIRE, delicacy, humour, and virtuosity can be expected in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s current all-Mozart spring tour which arrives in Galway on Tuesday featuring the acclaimed Irish pianist Finghin Collins as soloist and director.

All the supermarkets and even our convenience shops have stocks of smoked salmon, many of which are labeled in such a way to make it difficult to separate the good from the great and the good from the not so good.

With more and more Irish people removing bank deposits to place money in various saving schemes at home and abroad, the fate of the euro continues to be threatened.

Kilkenny clarinettist Léonie Bluett has won an exclusive place performing alongside the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra at the National Concert Hall.

Michael Flatley and his dance troupes delighted thousands of fans this week at the O2 in Dublin, however also stealing the show was Kilkenny dance teacher Bernadette Flynn as leading lady.

In the midst of our miserable weather, and dire financial troubles the series of ‘unfortunate’, or at least most unusual, events continued last year. Stringing them all together, as Dr Kieran Hickey does in his interesting book* reminds us that little old Ireland, blessed and loved by the saints, a ‘nation cradled in the arms of St Patrick’ (as I was taught in national school), is, alas, not excluded from strange geophysical events such as extreme weather conditions, including volcanoes and earthquakes, as we may have once believed. Although it was extremely rare for all these events to happen in the same year, I am sorry to say that having spoken to Dr Hickey this week, we’d better batten down the hatches, and prepare for a worse walloping to come. Just over 200 years ago the weather gave Mary Shelley monstrous dreams...but more of that in a moment.

To mark the third anniversary of Manuela Riedo’s tragic death in Galway in October 2007, a number of events will be taking place next week.