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GROWING UP in a house where the old vinyl collection featured Bob Dylan, Sweeney’s Men, and Pentangle alongside the Rolling Stones and Slade meant there was a good chance I would end up liking folk music as much as rock.

THIS SATURDAY and Sunday will see two nights of indie, rock, metal, electronic alternative and punk at the Roisin Dubh. Twelve bands are giving it everything in aid of the Celia Griffin Famine Memorial.

THEIR MUSIC mixes punk, hardcore, post-rock, electronica, jazz, and full on metal. They are hip and they have a super cool frontwoman. They are Rolo Tomassi.

PUNK AND hardcore fans in Galway are in for a treat at the end of this month when the legendary Nomeansno and Pack a.d play the Róisín Dubh.

Just when you thought it was safe to venture out, former giveamanakick front man and founder Steve Ryan returns to the big bad world of record releases with a second album from his band windings, a new musical offering from one of Limerick’s most talented gents.

The Ginger Biscuits are among the fresh young bands coming out of Athlone recently.

It was a strange sight not to see the Liam MacCarthy Cup being hoisted aloft on the stage while standing in the Market Yard on Monday evening among the masses of proud Kilkenny hurling fans waiting to welcome home our gallant heroes. Unfortunately Sunday’s game didn't pan out the way we would have hoped, and for that we must ‘tip’ our hats to the Premier men for a job well done.

Auctioneer Paul Walsh has opened his second antique and art auction house in Clarecastle, Co Clare. Mr Walsh has run the well known and successful Galway Auction Rooms in Kilcolgan for the past five years.

While you are reading this and seeing the mere words that lie on this page, several families in Kerry are going through an unimaginable grief. They are numbed by the events of yesterday morning; they are shivering and shaking as their bodies try to absorb the enormity of it all; the hugs and handshakes meaning little as they nod in an automated response; the realisation that after rearing children from the cot to the threshold of their own independence, that all they had hoped for their children has been taken away from them.

WHEN THE Deans released their debut album in 2008, they were a hard rocking, fretboard burning, blues band, but the last year has seen them evolve into an altogether different kind of rock’n’roll animal.