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Goodnight Ballivor, a new documentary based on the book Goodnight Ballivor, I’ll Sleep In Trim, by John Quinn will be broadcast on TG4 on Sunday at 9.30pm.

Girls can be cruel. In 1921 Walter Macken was six years old, and in middle babies at the Presentation Convent school. ‘Middle Babies’ had to be a challenge for any six year old boy (who already saw himself as a pilot ‘flying’ through the lanes around St Joseph’s Avenue where he lived). Today the Pres has a thriving national school, in Walter’s time it was predominatly a renowned ‘Girls’ school. It did offer places to boys to a very junior level (you started in infants, then middle babies, and then first class), before the boys moved off to ‘The Bish’ or ‘The Jes’, Mary’s, or Endas.

POETRY SLAMS, where poets recite works from memory and deliver them in a theatrical style, have been taking place for years, but a new phenomenon is coming to town - The Fiction Slam.

Alan Titley, the writer, columnist and Professor of Modern Irish in UCC, will give a free public lecture on Breandán Ó hEithir’s Lig Sinn I gCathu on Saturday at 2pm in the Galway City Museum.

“THERE ARE admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, ‘It all depends on me’.”

THE IRISH rock, indie, and singer-songwriter scene has never been healthier or more vibrant yet there is still a feeling that many of our best bands are still ‘local heroes’.

GALWAY-BASED playwright Christian O’Reilly, whose plays have been staged by Druid and Rough Magic, will see his latest play premiere at the Galway Theatre Festival in a production by Decadent Theatre Company.

Theatre companies are gathering in force for the beginning of RoolaBoola Children’s Arts Festival, taking place all next week at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar and culminating in a weekend of fun and excitement for young people and their families over the October Bank Holiday. The annual festival kicks off in truly spellbinding style next Monday October 19 with The Musician, a darkly thrilling piece of musical theatre by Northern Ireland’s Cahoots, purveyors of world-class children’s theatre. The Musician is a new opera for children that tells the story of the child who became the best known flautist of them all… the Pied Piper.

Kerry’s Tadhg Kennelly had been having a most magnificent year in a Gaelic footballing context, until last Sunday morning. Home from Oz, back with the Kerry panel, he collects a national football league medal, an All-Ireland medal and only last weekend an All-Star. Happy days. Just sit back and enjoy the harvest over the next few months, either in Kerry or back in Australia.