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Pembroke Communications, one of Ireland’s leading PR firms, has formed a strategic partnership with Slí Nua Communications, run by former Irish Independent journalist Liam Horan.

Galway’s latest festival, the Moondance Music & Arts Festival, takes place from Friday August 14 to Sunday 16 at Petersburg House, Clonbur, and will feature Lisa Hannigan, Jape, and Mairtín O’Connor.

The inaugural Midlands Mini-Marathon took place on Monday August 3 from the Park Hotel, Mullingar.

The Renmore History Society will begin its latest series of public talks on Thursday September 3.

Widely regarded as Britain’s bestselling author and leading spokesman on nutrition, Patrick Holford is in Galway next week as part of a nationwide lecture tour. The event, proudly hosted by Evergreen Healthfoods, takes place in the Galway Bay Hotel on Wednesday September 16 from 6pm.

A NIGHT of new music, old classics, and a platform for exciting Irish indie and rock’n’roll acts, named after the New Order and Joy Division compilations - this is Substance.

The countdown is on to the 2009 Impact Media Elevate Award, which this year offers a launch pad of €120,000 to two of the best business start-ups.

Fancy following in the steps of Westlife and Boyzone? The time is ripe for a new boy band to inject energy into the music business, and talented young men from across the Midlands are being sought to try out for this exciting opportunity.

In the presence of local councillors and media representatives, cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council, Cllr Fintan Cooney, officially dedicated the J P Hayden Press Room in the newly refurbished county buildings, Mullingar on Monday this week.

Michael Gillen was born in a house on a corner at Galway Docks in 1933. His family soon moved to Cooke’s Terrace in Bohermore, which he describes as “the best place I have ever lived in... you could not find a bad neighbour”. He had a “massive childhood”, much of it revolving around sport. Two of his great mentors were Tom Fleming and Martin King, both from Bohermore and both All-Ireland winners with the Galway hurling team in 1923. Michael’s dad grew vegetables and potatoes in ‘The Plots’ on the Headford Road, and his mother kept chickens in the back garden. Michael was always chasing them around, which is probably the reason why everyone called him Chick. This nickname stuck to him to the extent that one day, when a gang of his pals called to the door and said, “Is Michael in?” his mother had to think before she finally replied, “Do you mean Chick?”