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Cllr Terry O’Flaherty’s relative Bernard Laffey was the uncle of the late Bridie O’Flaherty, the former mayor of Galway city. Bernard was born in Clooncah, Woodlawn, and at the age of 20 was serving in the first battalion of the Irish Guards.

THE MCGOWAN Trilogy, a series of one-act plays by the award-winning Galway writer Seamus Scanlon will be performed as part of New York’s Annual Festival of Irish Theatre.

Swinford author Martin Dyar has been shortlisted for a second prestigious literary award.

A starry line-up of international musicians has been confirmed for the second Westport Festival of Chamber Music.

MARTIN DYAR, the NUI Galway graduate and acclaimed west of Ireland writer has been shortlisted for the prestigious Shine/Strong Award.

“NEO-ACOUSTIC Celtic post-rock” and “progressive traditional” are two of the terms which have been used to try to capture the sound and style of The Olllam.

THE DUBLIN Gospel Choir have been called “a must-see – who’d have thought gospel would be this cool?” by The Irish Times, and “uplifting” by Hot Press.

If there isn’t some dramatic change, and matters as they stand are allowed to drift, it is easy to see that the impact of the child abuse scandals within the Catholic church have had a very negative impact on the present and future generations in Ireland. Despite being one of the most generous generations ever when it comes to helping others, young people today are quite indifferent to the church. In fact many are openly hostile.

THE COMEDIANS Conor O’Toole and Alison Spittle will perform a double headline show at the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 7pm.

IN 1988 the Acid House explosion erupted across Britain and soon spilled over into Ireland, and the Sweat night in Sir Henry’s in Cork was Ireland’s first centre for ravers and house music events.