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THIS YEAR marks the centenary of the birth of the great Woody Guthrie, one of the true giants of American music. To mark the occasion, Woody’s son Arlo, a gifted singer/songwriter in his own right, is embarking on a celebratory new tour which comes to the Town Hall on Sunday, September 2. Entitled Here Comes The Kid, the tour salutes Woody Guthrie’s immeasurable contributions to the landscape of American folk music.

This Sunday in Croke Park (3.30pm) Galway will try might and main to advance to their first all-Ireland senior hurling final in seven years.

Following last Saturday’s impressive 4-20 to 2-11 victory over Wexford in O’Connor park, the Galway minor hurlers will face Tipperary at Croke Park in two week’s time in the All-Ireland semi-final.

GALWAY-BASED production company Florence Films have just completed an hour-long pilot episode of their new TV series Issues which dramatises the meetings between a psychotherapist and his clients.

Back in 1997, when the Internet was beginning to change our lives in ways we never could have guessed, the media-savvy John Paul II decided this new invention needed a patron saint. For the honour, he chose Saint Isidore of Seville (560-636), a Doctor of the Church, and the last of those formidable scholars who salvaged what they could of the culture of the dying Roman Empire.

Leinster SHC quarter-final

Two Galway men have been killed in separate accidents in the past week.

A repossession agent was found to have trespassed on private property and assaulted a man, whose van he was trying to repossess on behalf of ACC Asset Finance, at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

The Body&Soul Festival, now in its third year, exploded on to the summer scene in 2010 with its inaugural weekend at Ballinlough Castle, Co Westmeath.

A fishing trip turned into tragedy earlier this week when a freak wave knocked two men into the cold waters of Lough Corrib and, despite a major search and rescue effort by local fishermen and a coastguard helicopter, one man lost his fight for life in hospital hours later.