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GALWAY city and county will be going jazz mad this weekend with the Galway Jazz Festival in the city and the David Lyttle Trio in Clifden, while next week there will be the Red Hot Jazz Joint in Salthill.

DAVID O’DOHERTY, the If.comedy Award Winner 2008, will perform the his new show - which won him great acclaim at this year’s Edinbugh Festival - in the Town Hall on Thursday December 18 at 8pm.

GLAM ROCK legends the New York Dolls and a major dance show by the brilliant Michael Clark, inspired by the Glam era of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed, are just two of the many exciting shows, concerts, events, readings, and exhibitions lined up for this year’s Galway Arts Festival, which runs from July 13 to 26.

“WATCHING BARACK Obama get to The White House was such a one-off experience. For him to go from such obscurity to the highest political position in the world in such as short space time was an unparalleled journey in American politics.”

IT IS 1976. Sean Farrell has been mistakenly linked by the State to IRA activity and Emma Balstead, the daughter of a British military attaché officer, has run away from home.

“THERE ARE admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.”

World War 1 is the backdrop for the London box office success War Horse. It’s the story of bravery, loyalty and a mutual bond that grew between a young farm boy and his horse. But it is the highly imaginative and skilful way that the story is presented that has caught London’s imagination. The play is based on a book by Michael Morpurgo; and a recent acknowledgement by the public of the role animals have played in war, from the horse, the mule, the dog, the pigeon, even the humble glow worm used by sappers in No Man’s Land as they drew maps in the dark*. During the merciless, and relatively recent Battle of Stalingrad, (July 1942 to February 1943), 207,000 horses were killed on the German side alone (the human cost was an unimaginable one million). Animals are still used to help solders navigate rough terrain, or for dolphins to seek out mines, and dogs to sniff out contraband.

DAN LE Sac Vs Scroobius Pip are creating a huge stir with their take on pop/hip-hop, and will return to Galway to play ‘Stress!! Presents...’ at the Róisín Dubh on Saturday February 7 at 8pm.

Simon Evans @ The Comedy Club