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ANIME, JAPAN’S distinctive form of animation, and manga, Japan’s long tradition of comic books, will be celebrated in Galway at Akumakon 2014.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD has announced that a consortium of Irish Higher Education Institutions, led by NUI Galway has been awarded €1.24m in funding to collaborate with their Japanese counterparts through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) International Strategic Cooperation Award (ISCA).

HOW DO you react to the most successful year of your career, one that has seen you showered with critical praise and more people than every buying your albums and coming to your shows?

By the time next week’s issue of the Mayo Advertiser hits the shelves, hopefully we'll be basking in the afterglow of a day to remember for many years ahead. Sunday's games have given the people of this great and proud county something to think about and concentrate on for the past few weeks. The All-Ireland has enabled us to forget about or worries for a few brief flickering weeks, as the hunt for tickets and the build-up of excitement about the games has taken hold and pushed our financial, social, and other concerns to a small corner of the mind. Not that they have gone away or been forgotten about at all, but it has given us something positive to concern ourselves with. It has also created a great sense of community spirit and kinship from the top of Bangor Erris to the bridge in Shrule as we have all rowed in behind James Horan and Enda Gilvarry and their two teams of heroes.

ROOTS, COUNTRY, and blues singer-songwriter Tokyo Rosenthal plays a solo acoustic show at Monroe’s Backstage Bar this Sunday at 10.30pm.

JOHN DALY, one of Ireland’s leading DJs, will be hitting the decks at Get Deeper in The Cellar Underground this Saturday at 11pm.

THE WEDDING Present, the long running British indie band led by songwriter David Gedge, hasd made many fine albums over the years, with 1991’s Seamonsters being among their best.

Galway architects, designers, students, teachers, and activists who would like to show their work and share ideas with other creative people are sought for PechaKucha Night Galway.

WHEN THE Go! Team play Galway next month it may be the last time they grace a stage in this city, as the Brighton based collective are thinking of calling it a day by the end of the year.

Better known as Mr Nice, Howard Marks is a writer, creator, contributor, storyteller, comedian, Oxford graduate, philosopher, teacher, stoner, singer, actor, DJ, social commentator, revolutionary, and an all round nice guy. And he’ll be preforming his live show, An Audience with Mr Nice at The Loft in The Palace Bar, Athlone, on Saturday February 12 at 9.30pm.