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THERE IS a rare buzz to playing live - standing on a stage in front of hundred of people wqho know the words of your songs, and will sing them back to you. Live shows and tours also lead you to have some crazy adventures and, if you are lucky, the chance to meet a Beatle.

Sally O’Brien of Aran Island Ferries – together with other leading tourism representatives from around the island of Ireland hit the road in Australia recently, joining Tourism Ireland for a week-long sales blitz to promote Ireland as a top holiday destination. Playing on the huge popularity of talent competitions right now, the theme of this year’s trade mission was “Ireland’s Got Talent”, with 15 of Ireland’s leading tourism operators joining Tourism Ireland ‘Down Under’. Their busy schedule saw them meet with hundreds of Aussie and New Zealander travel agents, tour operators and carriers, as well as influential media contacts in the cities of Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland.

DECEMBER IS going to be a amazing month for music fans in the city as three of Ireland’s leading bands - Two Door Cinema Club, Villagers, and The Coronas - come to Galway for a series of major ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concerts.

The Saw Doctors will play their first public concert in Kilkenny in ten years on Friday October 15, at the Set Theatre to promote their new studio album, The Further Adventures of The Saw Doctors, which TV star and comedian Peter Kay launched at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin at the end of September.

FOR MORE than two decades Irish actor and comedian Jimeoin has been a household name in Australia but on Thursday October 21 he returns to Ireland to play The Galway Comedy Festival.

Two Fiesta models recently completed the Irish leg of a world tour which included a matchmaking trip to Lisdoonvarna.

David and Laragh Cunningham of the Yoga Shala have just returned from four months studying and working with Australia’s most respected yoga teachers and physiotherapists in Sydney. Simon Borg Olivier and Bianca Machliss have propelled yoga into mainstream Australian life through their innovative teachings over the past 25 years.

A former bodyboarding champion from Sydney is cycling from Ireland to Australia to raise awareness about mental health.

The Saw Doctors, who are just back in Ireland after sell-out shows in New York at Irving Plaza, and Boston at the House of Blues, have announced two more Galway concerts on Tuesday June 22 and Wednesday June 23, upstairs at Kelly's, to add to the previously announced Galway shows at the Bridge Street venue on June 1 and 2.

MUSICIANS OFTEN say in advance of coming to your town to play a gig “Oh yes we’re really looking forward to playing there,” and no doubt it is a line they use to every journalist ahead of every town they play.