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JULIE FEENEY will perform songs from her new album pages, with the ConTempo Quartet, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Thursday July 16 at 8pm as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.

Music fans of all ilks will be pleased to hear that Lisa Hannigan is in Kilkenny and ready to rock Kytelers - well lull Kytelers - with her unusually soft and haunting voice on Wenesday July 8.

“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.”

JOHN BOYNE, the author of the international best-seller The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, will read at the 32nd Clifden Community Arts Festival.

“HEIDI TALBOT sings in a voice that’s both awestruck and tender,” says The New York Times, while Village Voice describes her as “Björk combined with Enya”.

Do you suffer from “butterfly-itis” at the very mention of networking at business functions? If you answered yes, you are not alone. Many business people and entrepreneurs get a bit uncomfortable when it comes right down to walking up to someone and starting a conversation. Feeling comfortable introducing yourself to total strangers is one of the biggest obstacles to networking. How do you overcome it?

THE CITY is in for a treat with a weekend of jazz from leading practitioners of the genre from Norway, Germany, Italy, and Ireland at the Galway Jazz Festival which runs from this evening up to Sunday night.

The making of a perfect burger has been the aim of many a chef over the years and recently we have seen the arrival of gourmet burger restaurants where the whole focus is on providing you with a substantial meal in a bun. The meat has to be right, the cooking (preferably chargrilled) has to be perfect, the bun itself has to be well chosen, and then you decide which additions will make it a finished product. I am surprised how long it has taken for this type of food to catch on as 25-plus years ago I survived on a diet of such burgers in Birmingham, served in a basket with fantastic chips and salad.