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BALLET HAS long been a Cinderella of Irish arts and very few Irish dancers have achieved international prominence. Yet 17-year-old ballerina Emer Lenihan, from Claregalway, looks set to buck that trend and go to the top of this demanding profession.

WHEN EDNA O’Brien’s novel, The Country Girls was first published in 1960, it scandalised conservative Catholic Ireland and the controversy over the book saw it being both banned and ceremonially burned.

According to the latest Rent Index from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), in the October-December period (quarter four) of 2018, the standardised national average rent of tenancies in Mayo was €623 - up from €577 (+€46) one year earlier - and down €9 on the previous quarter (quarter three 2018).

Commandant Leo Quinlan will deliver a public lecture in the Moore Institute at NUI Galway on the experience of his father, Commandant Pat Quinlan, in the historic Battle of Jadotville, 1961. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 9 April, at 5pm.

Athlone Little Theatre, the intimate and atmospheric venue, is in final on and off stage preparation mode as 'The Father' commences an eight performance run from Saturday, April 6, until Saturday, April 13 (inclusive). With curtain up at 8pm, the final production of the season is certain to attract theatre enthusiasts to the St. Mary's Place location.

A FLURRY of locally-produced plays have graced Galway’s stages over the past few weeks, the most of impressive of them being Brú Theatre’s Selvage at the Mick Lally Theatre, written and performed by James Riordan and deftly directed by Lara Campbell.

BORN ON The Aran Islands in 1896, Liam O’Flaherty was to become one of the most distinguished and prolific writers of 20th century Ireland. His first book, Thy Neighbour’s Wife, was published in 1923 and was followed by an avalanche of novels, short stories, and poems in English and as Gaeilge, as well as travelogues.

The HSE, Mayo Council Council and The Movement Gym, are working in partnership to bring the messages of protection, resilience and support for mental wellness to local communities in Mayo.

The International Federation of Business and Professional Women (BPW International) has chosen NUI Galway as the location for their 16th European conference, promoting women’s professional and leadership potential at all levels.

IN AN era of rising xenophobia, abusive Twitter trolls, and polarised politics, Fregoli Theatre Company reaffirms the joy of love in its new show, The Fregoli Heart Project, which will premiere at the Cúirt Festival of Literature on Monday April 8.