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Welcome to the 10th edition of The Craic in Galway magazine! You’d swear we were celebrating 10 years we are such happy craicers. We can’t wait to meet you at our launch party on Saturday, October 26th, with free food, a fashion show and live music, how could you miss it. It kicks off at Monroes Live at 8:30pm and we look forward to seeing you there. We finally came out of the closet and have popped our front cover cherry as we posed together for Bloody Dinner at Le Petit Rouge. Without further ado, let me introduce you to The Craic Squad – Darius, head on a plate, Ivan; Miguel, Jack Sparrow, Maza; Sunny, server of severed heads Juddy; Gearoid, I suck your blood, O’Machain; and finally my good self Avril, wine guzzling red riding hood, Horan. We are the core team behind this magazine and couldn’t be without our amazing regular contributors, Rebecca Casserly and Stephen McCullough, who are missing from the photo because we ate them. Well it is Halloween! And we have our newbies, Cara Lyons and Rebecca Horgan. That wine was fabulous by the way. Thank you to our great advertisers who are the rocket fuel behind the launch of this colourful and vibrant Craic Mag. We want to portray Galway in a positive light, so we won’t win a Pulitzer for digging any dirt. What we are is a magazine jam packed full of news, views and photos celebrating the best this city and county has to offer. Don’t forget you can catch us on facebook thecraicingalway where we like to be liked and online at www.galway.com.

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• 1pm: Do you want some comedy with your soup? Phill Jupitus will work up some lunchtime laughter at The Ruby Room in The King’s Head.

• 6pm: The Cooley Collins Trad Fest kicks off in Gort today until October 28th.

• 6:30pm: Paul Currie brings his show The Sticky Bivouac to the Town Hall Theatre Studio.

• 7:30pm: It’s Ted! Ted from Scrubs, otherwise known as Sam Lloyd, will perform a stand up show at An Taibhearc.

• 7:45pm: It’s Faulty Towers with a diff erence as you will actually get your meal on time and what you ordered without the roof falling in as they perform at The Salthill Hotel complete with meal.

• 8pm: Catch Eddie Pepitone, Fred Cooke, and Andrew Maxwell for some rib tickling comedy festival shenanigans at The Roisin Dubh, Dominick Street.

• 8pm: Michael Winslow, Phill Jupitus, Eddie Brill and Jason Byrne will have you laughing out loud (hopefully) at the Radisson Blu Live Lounge.

• 8pm: Enjoy the comedic stylings of David O’Doherty, Lee Mack, Aisling Bea, and Joe Rooney at the Town Hall Theatre.

• 8pm: Günther’s Sunday Roast (we know, it’s a Friday, but its comedy after all) takes place at Kellys with Barry Murphy, Kevin Gildea, Ian Coppinger, Karl Spain and Danny Dowling.

• 9:30pm: Tony Law presents Nonsense Overdrive at An Taibhearc.

• 11pm: One of our favourite bands, The Amazing Apples, take to the stage at Monroes Live.

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By Avril HORAN

Seamus Sheridan, of Sher-idan’s Cheesemongers on St Nicholas Church Square, has thrown his hat into the ring to go forward as a local election candidate in 2014.

Ah yes the build-up has started and he hopes to be chosen by the Galway Greens as their candidate of choice for the City Council. It was highly anticipated that the he would go forward and he has now of-fi cially put his name on the dot-ted line. One of his main aims is to secure a 7-day indoor market for the city and he “is going to make it happen”.

“We need balance,” he told The Craic in Galway, “ as we have too many shopping cen-tres.

We need to balance this with local and traditional busi-nesses and an indoor market is the best way to make this happen. There will be huge knock on benefi ts for tourism, the economy and it will be the green lungs of Galway.

Farmers and other small food producers in particular need this stream of income and this would

be just the place to provide it. It will create 500 new jobs and 1,000 auxiliary jobs. We don’t have the opportunity at the mo-ment without one.

It would be similar to the English market in Cork, which has kept many local produc-ers going, especially in diffi cult times,” he says.

Seamus believes the Green Party best refl ects his own be-liefs and has stood fi rm despite the hammering they received after the last election.

He took on the role of ag-ricultural spokesperson at “the lowest possible point since the foundation of the party” demonstrating his commit-ment to the greens.

He wants to be a new voice for tourism, agriculture, the arts and social democracy in the city and believes he “has a lot to off er to the people of Galway”. He doesn’t want the new make-up of Galway City Council to be “cut from the traditional cloth of politicians” and admits he al-ready “gives out to everybody!”

He will know if he has the green light from the party in mid-November.

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Saturday 26th Oct 2013

• Th e Galway Abooo festival hits the streets of the city today and you can catch the handsome Fanzini Brothers out and about throughout Th e Latin Quarter.

• 1pm: Enjoy some Colm O’Regan with your sandwich as he presents ‘Ireland’s got more mammies’ at the Ruby Room at Th e Kings Head.

• 4pm: Whose Line Is It Anyway? With Steve Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen & Ian Coppinger will have you laughing out loud at Th e Roisin Dubh.

• 6:30pm: C’est La Bea for comedian Aisling Bea as she is set to entertain at Th e Town Hall Studio.

• 7:30pm: It’s Ted! Ted from Scrubs, otherwise known as Sam Lloyd, will perform a stand up show at An Taibhearc.

• 7:45pm: Enjoy a bit of Faulty Towers with a three course meal at Th e Salthill Hotel.

• 8pm: Comedians Michael Winslow, Eddie Pepitone, Abandoman, Bernard O’Shea and Jason Byrne take to the stage at Seapoint, Salthill.

• 8pm: Or how about catching Andrew Maxwell, Lee Mack, Eleanor Tiernan and Barry Murphy at Th e Black Box Th eatre.

• 8pm: Glenn Wool, Neil Delamere, Pappys and Colin Murphy will share their comedic stylings at Th e Town Hall Th eatre.

• 8:30pm: Drop everything and come to the launch of our fantastic magazine! Th e Craic in Galway launch takes place at Monroe’s Live from 8:30pm with food, a fashion show and live music too!

• Midnight: Th e Who Knows and Common Tongues take to the stage at Monroe’s Live and we will be there still launching and partying! Join Us!

CRAICING NEWS!!!By Avril HORAN

The picturesque Ballyna-hinch Castle in Recess, Connema-ra has been voted Ireland’s top hotel by the international guide Conde Nast Traveller. The award was voted by the readers and the staff are “thrilled to bits” by the accolade. The 5-star is currently up for sale and has sparked the interest of tycoon Denis O’Brien who is in closing talks to pur-chase the castle.

He will be following in the footsteps of pirates, humani-tarians and maharajahs, as the historical estate is linked to the likes of Grainne Mhaol, Richard Martin, known as Humanitarian Dick for founding the Society for

the Prevention of Cruelty to An-imals and the Indian Maharaja, Ranji the Prince of Cricketers. The Readers’ Choice Awards were fi rst published in 1986 by Conde Nast and back then, the high score was 87.0. Ballynahinch Castle re-ceived 93.7, followed by the Mer-rion Hotel in Dublin and Lough Eske Castle in Donegal.

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Fantastic news! Lily Mae Morri-son, our 5 year old Tiny Dancer from Claregalway, is in remission after her treatment for neuroblastoma. It is over one year since a group of local singers and musicians came togeth-er to create the charity single to help her battle this rare and aggressive form of cancer. Her mum, Judith, says she is “thrilled to be able to share the news” and it is “the best possible news we could ever have hoped for”.

“While this past 16 months have been an absolute nightmare, the love shown to our little girl has been abso-lutely overwhelming,” she says.

“We would also like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for your prayers, your positive energy, your distance healing and your love

for both Lily-Mae and her family. We would like to sincerely thank the doctors in Crumlin, the radiologists in London and the researchers who created the antibody trial.”

With a high risk of relapse, Lily Mae has been enrolled in a clinical trial in Michigan, USA. She will travel there every three months for the next two years. Congratulations to a brave and strong little girl and we wish her the best of health as she continues on her journey.

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Featuring

Galway photogra-pher, Liam Carroll, is snap happy after his photograph has been featured in a special 125 year edition of Na-tional Geographic. The picture, captured by the 33-year-old from Knocknacarra, has gained international recognition after it was selected as part of the Editor’s Choice section.

It was taken while Liam was on holidays in Bolivia with his wife and two children, and cap-tures dancers at the an-nual Carnaval De Oruro. He travelled overnight by bus to make the spectacle, complete with fi reworks and dra-matic costumes.

The photo depicts the lead dancer of the Conjunto Folklor-ico y Cultural Phujllay Oruro making his way beneath a shower of sparkling fi reworks to the sound of a bull horn in a symbolic bat-tle cry.

“My passion for photography devel-oped from years of travelling,” explains Liam, who is origi-

nally from Tuam. I set off with my younger brother Paul, a guitar, mandolin and camera and just kept travel-ling. We covered al-most 50 countries over 12 years.

“This photo was taken at the climax of a long days dancing. The dancer’s stamina was remarkable. I chatted with dancers, who had been dancing non-stop

since early morning, many fuelled by alcohol or Coca leaves. It was a unique experience.

The passion of the dancers and musicians was so intense and I was lucky enough to be able to get in amongst them. I was thrilled when it was published, as that magazine in-spired my travels and photography.

It was also extra special, as it was a land-mark edition celebrat-ing 125 years. The pho-to is from Bolivia, where my other half is from. We have two kids, Liam Og (5) and Sofi a (1) and this photo might help them appreciate their mothers culture in the future, he says.”

Galway Photographer Featured in National Geographic

Right: Editor’s Choice Photo in 125th Edition of NatGeo.Left: Liam with Bolivian President.

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Sunday 27th Oct 2013

• 1pm: Enjoy some lunchtime comedy with a screening of The Bitter Buddah followed by Q&A with Eddie Pepitone at The Kings Head.

• 1:25pm: If you want to get away from all of this comedy, then head out to Ballybrit for The Galway Races.

• 3pm: Enjoy the big little fancy dress disco at the City Museum for Galway Abooo.

• 4pm: For some light hearted relief, Whose Line Is It Anyway? with Steve Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen & Ian Coppinger will have you laughing out loud at The Roisin Dubh.

• 4:45pm: The Macnas Parade will take to the streets of Galway for a welcome return with ‘On A Night’s Journey’.

• 7:30pm: Omid Djalili will bring his unique comedy to The G Suite at the G Hotel for two shows.

• 7:45pm: Enjoy a bit of Faulty Towers with a three course meal at The Salthill Hotel.

• 8pm: It’s time once again for the Silent Disco Street Party organised by The Roisin Dubh - except this time it’s fancy dress night.

• 8pm: Jason Byrne, Maeve Higgins, Foil Arms and Hog, and Jarlath Regan will be at the armed with their wit at The Town Hall Theatre.

• 10pm: Covers band Raindance will play at Monroe’s Live followed by The Rascals at 11:30pm.

By Avril HORAN

Pearses’ Cottage in Rosmuc, Connemara, the home of the spokesman for the 1916 Rising, Pádraig Pearse, is set for a fund-ing boost as part of the Govern-ment’s 2016 commemoration programme.

Taoiseach Edna Kenny has indicated that funding will be provided for a project to breathe new life into the histor-ic homestead of Pádraig Pearse. Udaras na Gaeltachta has pre-pared plans which will boost tourism and the local economy in Rosmuc.

The plans include an inter-pretive centre and they are now in negotiation with the Depart-ment of the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to fi nalise the preferred plan.

It will be a signifi cant scoop for the west as other projects under consideration under the

2016 funding plan are based in Dublin.

They include the GPO, Kil-mainham Jail and the Military Museum. The cottage is Ros-muc’s most famous landmark and attracts up to 10,000 visi-tors per year.

The then 23-year-old Pádraig Pearse came to the area in April 1903 as an exam-iner for Conradh na Gaeilge. He fell in love with the location and built his own two bed thatched cottage on the site with a stun-ning view of Loch Eiliarach. He spent a lot of time in Rosmuc between 1903 and 1915, writ-ing short stories and poetry.

He was also an Irish teacher, barrister and nationalist and was executed for his part in the 1916 Rising.

As a result, Pádraig Pearse is regarded by many as the embod-iment of the rebellion.

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Galway’s Angry Birds are chirping as a free park-ing initiative for the city has been approved. During November, parking will be free in the city centre from 10am-12pm Monday to Friday. The scheme will operate from November 4th-29th. And there is more good news, as many retailers are going to off er specials and incentives during the free parking hours. The group have gained momentum thanks to a facebook page creat-ed by Jimmy Griffi n from Griffi n’s Bakery on Shop Street, which has become a platform for disgruntled motorists, or ‘angry birds’.

Having met with Director of Service, Ciaran Hayes, they have secured the free park-ing trial in the city, despite a projected loss to the council of €20k. The move has been described as “a great start” by Mr Griffi n. “We have made progress,” he says and has thanked the Galway Chamber and Galway City Business Association. He also gave special mention to Ciaran Hayes, Cllr Nuala Nolan and Cllr Neil McNei-lis “who made this happen” and to the supporters of the page - Galway City Parking Information - who “gave a voice to the cause”.

It’s something to chirp about.

President Michael D Higgins will attend a gala dinner in the city to help raise funds for Galway’s new independ-ent cinema, The Picture Palace. The black tie dinner will take place at the Radisson Blu hotel on Friday, November 8th. Located at the Spanish Arch, the Picture Palace will have three screens, a café, bar and bookshop at its Spanish Arch loca-tion. A number of lead-ing fi gures from the fi lm and arts community are expected to attend the

event to help the cine-ma to open its doors for spring 2014.

Tickets, priced at €135, can be purchased by emailing: elaine@galwaychamber.com or calling (091) 563536

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Monday 28th Oct 2013

• Happy Bank Holiday Monday!

• 1:35pm: Head out to Ballybrit for a feast of racing, horses, bett ing, and music as the Galway Races October meet heads into its second day.

• 3pm: Enjoy Th e Comedy Club for Kids at Th e Town Hall Th eatre with Jupe Jupe the Panda (Phill Jupitus) and sketches from Foil, Arms and Hog. For ages 6 to 100!

• 4pm: It’s the last day of the comedy festival, sniff , so for the fi nal time check out Whose Line Is It Anyway? with Steve Frost, Andy Smart, Steve Steen & Ian Coppinger will have you laughing out loud at Th e Roisin Dubh, Dominick Street.

• 8pm: Th e best of the best will feature at the Roisin Dubh as the comedy festival takes a bow.

• 8pm: Sean Lock brings the Purple Van Man to Th e Black Box.

• 8pm: Th e Live Lounge at Th e Radisson Blu plays host to Kevin Bridges, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ian Coppinger, Phil Nichol and Colm Tyrrell.

• 9:30pm Ollie and Friends will have your toes tapping at Barr an Chaladh, Woodquay.

• 10pm: You can jump jive and wail with the fantastic Black Magic Big Band at Busker Brownes, Cross Street.

• 11:30pm: It’s Silent Disco Monday’s at Th e Roisin Dubh – time to dance off aft er all of that comedy gold.

Galway Bay FM’s Keith Finne-gan found himself on the other side of the microphone for a live debate on RTE. The host of Gal-way Talks and Chief Executive of the station is used to conducting the interviews for his daily chat show. And yet he found himself fi rmly in the hot seat as ques-tions were raised about RTE’s most contentious long running programme – The Angelus. The discussion on Beyond Belief, led by Mick Peelo, asked whether the Angelus is ‘a welcome moment of grace and peace or simply a broadcasting fossil which has no place on the publicly funded air-waves’. Keith was part of a panel which included Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland, social justice broadcaster, Dil Wickremasing-he, Alan Titley, Emeritus Profes-sor of Modern Irish at UCC and

Roger Childs, Head of RTE Reli-gious Programmes. The chiming bells, played at 12 and 6pm since the 1950s, came under attack by Jane and Dil as sectarian, with no place in a new diverse Ireland. Keith, Alan and Roger put for-ward their case for keeping the religious moment of refl ection. So passionate was he about the topic, that he is now considering playing The Angelus on Galway Bay FM. So if you hear the bells, you will know why.

“It is a question I have to look at myself,” he said on air. “After this discussion, it is something I would consid-er. It has stimulated debate. I have to sit with my own board and have a chat and make a decision. I don’t think anyone would take off ense if we fi red The Angelus.”

Olympic Champion, David Rudisha has raised €20k for char-ity following the success of the Galway Kenya run.

The man with the fastest legs on the planet raised thou-sands by coming to the city for the event, along with his coach Br Colm who is a graduate of NUIG.

The money raised will go to Galway Simon, Self Help Africa and Br Colm’s own charity, Edu-cation for Life. Meanwhile, a me-

morial mass will be held in Gal-way on Sunday, October 27th for Mbugua Mwangi, the nephew of former Kenyan Ambassador Ms Catherine Muigai Mwangi –who was killed in the Westgate Mall terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.

It will take place in St Nich-olas’ Church at 11am. The news came as a shock to the strong Galway Kenya community here in the city, as Catherine was in-strumental in the organisation of the Galway Kenya Run.

CRAICING NEWS!!!By Avril HORAN

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A Champion for CharityRudisha Raises €20k

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Ganley Walters Auctioneers told The Craic in Galway that they have had “a few good enquiries” about the estate since it went up for sale and there is a “mixture of inter-est from both” when it comes to Irish and for-eign buyers. The castle has a rich history.

The Victorian gothic main house was commissioned in the 1880s by the then owners, Edward Mar-tyn and his mother. Martyn was a friend of WB Yeats and Lady Gregory, and was one of the key founders of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.

Bought by Dutch couple, Ruud and Femmy Bolmeijer over

18 years ago for £2m, they have brought the 16th century tow-er and Victorian main building back to life, with its great hall, re-ception rooms, library and 7 bedrooms.

The estate has a beautifully restored walled garden, or-chard, ornamental lake, gate lodge, sta-ble house and apart-ments. Claregalway stained glass expert, Richard Kimball, was commissioned to recreate and restore panes at the castle and loved his time working there.

“It was a labour of love for the couple,” said Richard. “It has been intelligently con-served and so tasteful-

ly restored. They were really good people to work for and it was a pleasure to be asked to go in. Everything was well thought out, they were not just star-ry eyed but had a clear vision of what they wanted to achieve.

It is opulent, but liveable opulence! Some rooms are very decorative while oth-ers are more comfort-able and the kitchen is the heart of the home.

The Bolmeijers have been around the world and knew ex-actly what they want-ed. Everything has been done to the best standard.

I started working with them in 1995 and had just fi nished Ky-

lemore Abbey. Mr Bol-meijer came into my workshop, which was located on Blacksmith Avenue at the time. I moved there from The Long Walk, where I was used to tourists coming in to shelter from the showers! But I fi gured this guy was off the beaten track for coming out the rain.

He invited me out to see the castle and wanted new work based on original de-signs.

It really was a pleasure working there and they are fun, honest and sincere people.

You can fi nd Rich-ard at Aria Stained Glass Cortoon, Clar-egalway 091 793366

Th e 6 Million Dollar Castle By Avril HORAN

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Tuesday 29th Oct 2013

• 7:30am: The Galway Chamber are up bright and early to uncover the mysteries of cloud computing with Enda Folan, MD of Computer Troubleshooters at their premises in Commerce House, Merchants Road.

• 7pm: Online Marketing Galway will hold their October ‘Meet Up’ at The Harbour Hotel. Guest speakers include Cosmin Gliga from The City Bin Company and Kevin Moran, Managing Director at IMS Marketing.

• 7:45pm: The Galway Swimming Club presents the Swimmer of The Year Award at The Salthill Hotel.

• 8pm: Glen Hansard is back! After his amazing performance at The Big Top for the Galway Arts Festival, The Frames front man will perform at The Town Hall Theatre for one night only.

• 8:30pm: The Hour Glass Theatre Co presents Red Handed at The Town Hall Studio. Located in a cheap hotel in an autumnal Dublin city, the wife of an ambitious politician secretly meets her old lover after fi fteen years.

• 9pm: The Townhouse Bar and Live Music venue presents Mná Mná, a monthly event featuring the top talent of women in original music in the city.

• 9pm: The Little Cinema Halloween Special takes place at Kellys Bar. Enjoy the best of local fi lm entertainment in this fancy dress event with ghosts, ghouls and all things scary.

• 9:30pm: Enjoy an open ballad session with Aidan at Barr an Chaladh, Woodquay.

• 11:30pm: Dust off those headphones again for the silent disco at The Roisin Dubh – so good they do it twice (per week!).

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GALWAY StreetStyle!!!By Rebecca CASSERLY becboopfashionistaworld.blogspot.ie

Our own Bec Boop is delving deeper into the Galway fashion underground. Here, local fashion blogger, Robin McGonigle from Galway is pictured with her street style. She caught our eye wearing a mix of thrifted � nds and high-street items in trendy black and gold.

Street Styler: Robin McGonigle, Galway CityOccupation:Fashion Student/Retail

Blogs at: www.jewelstuddedgrunge.blogspot.ie

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Our own Bec Boop met the man of the moment, Calum Best, as he became the talk of the city streets thanks to an appearance at The Stock Ex-change. The charming rogue was pictured with our fashion guru in the VIP area, at an event to launch Krystal Thursdays. Re-becca, got up close and person-al with the reality star and son

of soccer legend, George Best. “It was a fun experience,”

she says. “He is really sweet, friendly and such a nice person to meet. It was all rather busy, as I was in the VIP area and the press shoots were taking place. I did get a chance to speak to him briefl y and to welcome him to Galway,” she says. Not only that, but our gal made such

an impression that she received a personal tweet from him after the event. And she admits that he was handsome in real life! Calum, who recently declared bankruptcy fl ew in from Ibiza and is no stranger to Ireland. He said he had “ a great few days in Galway and will be back soon”.

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Wednesday 30h Oct 2013

• 11am: Deaf Hear will host their Halloween party at the Deaf Hear Resource Centre, 9a Francis Street, Galway. It is a national charity providing specialist services to deaf and hard of hearing people and their families.

• 11am: A free family art class takes place at the Galway City Museum. Join local artist Bernadine Burke for this family drawing session and be inspired by the museum, its collections and historic surrounding.

• 3pm: A work and travelling abroad fair takes place at the Bailey Allen Hall, NUIG, bringing together J1 visa companies, travel companies, volunteering/adventure companies, travel insurance, internship and training companies to help you plan your summer away.

• 7pm: The Constitutional Convention, a group set up to examine changes to our constitution will host a regional meeting at NUI, Galway this evening as part of a series of nationwide meetings.

• 8pm: Music for Galway presents David Cohen, cello and Sasha Grynyuk, piano at the Aula Maxima, NUIG.

• 8:30pm: The Hour Glass Theatre Co presents Red Handed at The Town Hall Studio.

• 9pm: Citog will play a Halloween special at The Cellar Bar.

• 9:30pm: Enjoy the music of Paul Mc Loughlin at Barr An Chaladh, Woodquay.

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Halloween is one of my favorite hol-idays and I wanted to create a look that was suitable for Halloween and also beautiful! I created this blue and black themed ‘sugar skull’ makeup and here are 5 simple instructions on how to achieve it yourself and if you get stuck I created a Youtube tutorial to help you out.

Step 1: Use white face paint and cover your entire your face. I used Snazaroo.Step 2: Use a black eyeliner to out-line the eye sockets, then fi ll in with black face paint. Then on your fore-head, draw any design you want. I choose a spider web.

Step 3: Apply blue (or any colour) lipstick. Then use a thin brush and black face paint to draw on the lines around the mouth.Step 4: Use a blue (or any colour) eyeliner to draw the designs on your face and eye sockets.Step 5: Apply false lashes and any other little details you want, I added some shimmer eye shadow on the eye sockets.

For extra eff ect I added a blue wig!

Check out the online tutuorial at: http://www.youtube.com/user/MissBeautyPerfectionFacebook: RebeccaHorganMake-UpArtist

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Th ursday 31st Oct 2013

• Happy Halloween!

• 2pm: Herbalist Lisa Brooks will host an ‘Open Afternoon’ for a Medicinal Herbs demonstration at Brigit’s Garden, Roscahill followed by a facilitated information sharing session, tea and chat.

• 4pm: A Halloween bonfi re and storytelling evening takes place at Brigit’s Garden, Roscahill, with a ‘do you dare’ spooky treasure hunt.

• 6:30pm: Enjoy a night of literature with Over The Edge at the Galway City Library. The featured readers are Sarah O’Toole, Margaret Brady and Frank Dullaghan.

• 8pm: It’s a special night for Galway cancer survivors with Something to Sing About at the Town Hall Theatre at 8pm.

• 8pm: Join the fancy dress party trail throughout the Latin Quarter with lots of prizes.

• 8:30pm: Head to the launch of The Curse of the Banshee fi lm at the Menlo Park Hotel, with boxer Steve Collins.

• 9pm: Sit back and enjoy Four Men and a Bass at the Townhouse Bar and Music Venue.

• 9.30pm: Sit back and enjoy the music of Paul Gaughan at Barr an Chaladh, Woodquay.

• 10pm: You’ve heard about it, you’ve seen the posters and now it’s time for the Halloween event of the evening at Monroe’s Live. It will be full of monsters and madness as John Munnelly takes to the stage followed by The Wave at midnight.

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Scottish singer/songwrit-er KT Tunstall is coming to Galway. She will gig at the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill on Saturday November 2nd from 8pm. Renowned for her live performances, she broke into the public eye in 2004 with an appearance on Later with Jules Holland and has since appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. She is perhaps best known for her hit ‘Suddenly I See’.

KT has enjoyed commercial and critical success, picking up

three nominations before win-ning a Brit Award, and a Gram-my Award nomination.

She is the recipient of an Ivor Novello Award. She has released fi ve albums interna-tionally: Eye to the Telescope (2004), KT Tunstall’s Acoustic Extravaganza (2006), Dras-tic Fantastic (2007), Tiger Suit (2010) and Invisible Empire Crescent Moon (2013). She has also appeared in an episode of the comedy series This is Jinsy on Sky Atlantic.

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The ghoulish tale of the Curse of the Banshee will be brought back to life at the Menlo Park Hotel on Halloween night, October 31. Boxing legend, Steve Collins, will be at the premier of the horror fi lm short, which was written and directed by Mervue’s Stephen Patrick Kenny (31) and shot on location in Galway.

Stephen began his career as an actor at the age of 16, and worked on fi lms such as Intermission, Saving Private Ryan and Showbands, before moving behind the camera. Since then, he has a string of credits to his name, and the media rogue, Calum Best, is lined up to take part in his next fi lm. We had to fi nd out why he is talking a walk on the dark side.

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What’s this fi lm about?

It starts out in 1963, when a group of witch hunters try to track down the local banshee using a Ouija board. A young Dan-ny hides the cursed board, but it is found by his daughter 50 years later. It is set in Merlin Park Woods and Castle Ellen in Athenry.

How did you get involved?

The last thing I wanted to do was a short, as I am so busy with other projects! But the story was so good and I had an idea for a banshee script. I was approached by the producer and we had similar ideas, but I wanted to bring back the old Irish witch hunters. There was obvious hard work and commitment behind the project and they

delivered on every promise. We were able to cast the likes of Tom Ward, who plays Derek in Love/Hate and I am really proud of it.

Why the fi lm in-dustry?

I started acting professionally at 16, but I lost my passion when I was 20 and started training to be a carpenter! In this busi-ness, if you lose your passion, it’s hard to get it back. I went into pro-ducing local plays and got back into fi lms, on the other side of the camera, at the age of 23. There is always something new to learn.

I prefer to write my own scripts. I know the style I want to shoot it in and I love fast paced fi lms. I have only directed two fi lms I never wrote. I prefer to direct my own stuff

as I work so hard on developing characters.

I like working with people all of the time but I don’t stand for arrogance. It’s a diff er-ent world. It’s a tough job and it can be very emotional.

Have you met many famous people?

I suppose I have! The likes of Colin Far-rell and Brendan Glee-son, I have met loads of them. I love watch-ing people work. I wouldn’t be the fi rst to ask for an autograph or a photo, I just love watching very talent-ed people. Asking for a photo is just not me!

Do you like Hal-loween?

I love it! I prefer it to Christmas. I am not a dark person, but I love the crispy nights and people dressing

up. The fact that I was promised a premier on the 31st was another reason why I did The Curse of the Banshee.

What’s next?The Street is one of

my next projects and I have Calum Best lined up for a part in that. It is a Love/ Hate style fi lm with gruesome eff ects and will be shot on lo-cation in Mervue, Cas-tlepark and Westside. It will be a hard hitting feature that will focus on what goes on in the streets of Ireland. Somebody’s There will be set in the wilds of Connemara as a group of friend celebrate the fi rst year anniversary of a close friend.

They come across a beaten and bloodied male looking for help and from there is an intense rollercoaster bringing documentary style to a new level.

The fancy dress premier of The Curse of The Banshee takes place at The Menlo Park Hotel at 8:30pm on October 31st with Steve Collins

and lots of surprise guests.

Let’s Get NakedStaff and manage-

ment at Monroes on Dominick Street are stripping off for char-ity.

The team have tak-en the brave step to bare all in aid of Can-cer Care West.

Their charity cal-endar will be unveiled in November and will make the perfect Christmas cracker! While they are not trained models and were taken well out of their comfort zone for a good cause, we

hear that many took to it like a duck to water, especially some of the lads.

Some have been touched by cancer, whether in their im-mediate family or a friend, and were de-lighted to be able to help with an idea that took fl ight.

Monroes’ Live has already scooped the IMRO music venue of the year and now they are giving something back to the communi-ty. Well done all.

Photos were tak-en by our own Dar-ius Ivan and Miguel Maza. Darius was so

taken by the spirit of the event that he also de-robed for the camera.

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Friday 1st Nov 2013

• Today is the closing date for the Reel Life Science schools video competition. Primary and Secondary schools will have submitted short 1-3 minute videos on science related topics. The winning videos will be displayed on November 24th at NUI, Galway.

• 8pm: Kennedy’s Children plays at the Town Hall Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. A New York city bar on Valentine’s Day 1974 brings together a remarkable cast of characters in Robert Patrick’s award-winning play.

• 8pm: Alright The Captain will play a unique set at The Roisin Dubh, Dominick Street.

• 9pm: An over-25’s Halloween party takes place at The Ardilaun Hotel in aid of the Galway Hospice - for a spookily good night out and a good cause to boot!

• 9:30pm: It ain’t over as The Townhouse Bar and Music Venue host their Halloween Costume Party with Lunar Playground. Hopefully you haven’t wrecked your costume already.

• 10pm: Enjoy the musical stylings of Liam and Marie Treasa at Barr an Chaladh, Woodquay.

• 11pm: Head to Sally Longs Rock bar on Abbeygate Street for the best of thumping rock tunes. Celebrating 25 years, it is Galway’s one and only dedicated rock bar.

• 11pm: Shuffl e presents Keb Darge at the Roisin Dubh on Dominick Street.

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Oranmore’s Bruce Henry has been selected to compete for the title of Galway Young En-trepreneur of the Year. He was chosen by the Junior Chamber to go forward for the prestigious award following the success of his business venture, Murder On The Menu. The mystery dinner theatre, which takes place at The Harbour Hotel, is a passion for the young Canadian who has made Galway his home. Bruce is delighted that he has been al-lowed to go forward in the com-petition, where the prize fund is upward of €50k.

“I feel fantastic about it,” he told The Craic in Galway.

“My fi rst round of interviews went really well and it was a bit like appearing on The Appren-tice! I didn’t expect some of the questions, but I felt I represent-ed myself well and I knew the fi nancials of my business inside out.

One of the questions was ‘what makes you a great entre-preneur’ and I think you need courage and really put yourself out there. You have to love what you do – and I love what I do! You have to hustle, you have to get business and I am looking forward to the next round,” he said.

The fi nalists will be an-nounced at a Business Expo, at the Galway Bay Hotel.

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Boo! Happy Halloween-Love Cara and Candy By Cara LYONS

Connemara’s Cara Lyons and her alter ego, the trailer trashy, fun-loving, slightly crazy Candy are back to have a chat with us about their Halloween memories.

Are you fans of Halloween?

Cara: Yes I abso-lutely love Halloween! I started putting up the decorations on the 6th! I have always been fascinated by all things to do with it. I love the mystery and the magic. It makes people think what if? It brings peo-ple back to being kids. Oh and I love the scary movies.

Candy: Oh my God I freakin luv Hal-loween! You know, with all the scary stuff goin’ on, eatin’ treats and playin’ tricks and gettin all dressed up. And the way you can open up your door to fi nd some drunkin’ children asleep on your doorstep and have fun chasing them away. Good times!

What were your fa-vourite Halloween games growing up?

Cara: I loved to play all kinds of games and still do! I like the one where you have to bite the swinging apple blindfolded and dunk-ing for pennies in a ba-sin of water.

Candy: We didn’t have good drinkin’ waater in our house when I was a little girl so mamma use-ta fi ll the basin with gin. It worked just fi ne! Mam-ma would always end up suckin’ up all the gin though, instead of the coins. But that was ok, cus then I could just take all the coins and buy myself some pick n’ mix. There was some-thing about the combi-nation of gin and cop-per that’ed put mamma right to sleep. Now all she has to do is suck on a penny and she’s out like a light! You know the dunkin’ for pennies game? Well at school, when all the kids would play it together, we would hope we would be picked to go fi rst, before all the other kids would blow all their snot and spit into the water.

Are you planning on getting dressed up this year?

Cara: I like to get dressed up every year. Last year, I was a Victo-rian ghost and the year before, a vampire. This year, I might be a glad-iator!

Candy: This year I’m gonna wear a ‘no alcohol’ sign on the front of me and then I’m gonna wear an ‘I’m a girl who’s not on a diet’ sign on the back of me cus those are things that would really scare and shock people. And why the hell would a glad-iator be scary? We have weapons now days that would blast their head off. Do you really wanna be someone who lived in an age where there was

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Saturday 2nd Nov 2013

• 9am: The Galway Masters International Basketball Tournament takes place at the Kingfisher, NUIG. This two day event is for players over 40 and 35 respectively for men and women.

• Today is the last day to catch Pictiúr - An exhibition of Contemporary Irish Children’s Book Illustration at the Galway Arts Centre, 47 Lower Dominick St.

• Catch the ‘Too Cute’ exhibition by John Jennings at the Westside Library.

• Today is also the last day to see Robin Jones visual art exhibition at the 126 gallery on Flood Street.

• The Gaelforce Turf Warrior Challenge will have you swinging, climbing and leaping as you sweat it out on the banks of Killary Harbour. A 10k course for the adventurous!

• 5pm: Connacht Rugby take on Scotland’s Glasgow Warriors in the RaboDirect PRO12.

• 8pm: Kennedy’s Children plays at the Town Hall Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.

• 8pm: Catch legendary singer/songwriter KT Tunstall at the Seapoint Ballroom.

• 10pm: SÚGRADH IN GALWAY: DJ XL-R8 plays the best of commercial and dance music from the 80s every Saturday night from 9pm in KRCMA

Where would you be likely to fi nd TV3 Ireland AM present-er Sinead Desmond, footballer Robbie Keane, novelist Roddy Doyle, cook Rachel Allen, UTV and Sky TV presenter Eamonn Holmes, and musician Andrea Corr in one room? A stunning photography exhibition fea-turing all these celebrities and many more will be showing here in Galway at the City Mu-seum on November 5th - 18th.. ‘Signs Of Life’is organised by the Irish Deaf society and is the fi rst ever Irish Sign Language (ISL) celebrity photography exhibi-tion. These photos, snapped by a deaf photographer John-

ny Corcoran, provide a glimpse of the beauty of ISL through the eyes of 26 celebrities, each signing the letter of the ISL al-phabet.

The aim of the exhibition is to encourage public awareness and appreciation of one of only two unique lrish languages. ISL is the native language of the Irish Deaf Community and is used everyday by more than 40,000 people.

The exhibition will also feature short ISL ‘tasters’ pro-vided by Galway Deaf Centre volunteers throughout the two weeks. Opening Times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm.

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Sunday 3rd Nov 2013

• 9am: The Galway Masters International Basketball Tournament continues at the Kingfi sher, NUIG.

• 12pm: The Galway Bay Jazz Band play live at Busker Brownes, Cross St for a swingin’ set with your brunch.

• 12:30pm: Enjoy a jazz session at the Meyrick Hotel, Eyre Square.

• 1pm: The Galway Kiddies Market takes place at the Clayton Hotel. A donation of €5 per stall is made to a local primary school at each market event.

• 3pm: Enjoy an exclusive Irish concert of the North Cape A’Capella Group, one of the most popular and entertaining Polish live acts on the sea shanties scene at the Town Hall Theatre.

• 6:30pm: Go Mad With Trad at Barr an Chaladh, Woodquay as the joint will be jumping with an open session of toe tapping tunes.

• 8pm: Live gypsy jazz music by I Saw Stars at Kelly’s on Bridge St.

• 8:15pm: The Galway Film Society presents The Great Beauty at The Town Hall Theatre. A fi lm of aristocratic ladies, social climbers, politicians, high-fl ying criminals, journalists, actors, decadent nobles, prelates, artists and intellectuals.

• 9:30pm: Paddy Da Punk plays at Barr an Chaladh, Woodquay.

• 10:30pm: Dj Gary spins the best of house, R&B and Hip Hop at Liquid at The Bentley for a traffi c light party.

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We forgot to mention how the gorgeous Edel Quinn can be contacted in our last edition.

And so our intrepid design-er and photographer, Miguel Maza, went up to Dublin again to take another pic of this stun-ning Galway born actress and model.

We’ve decided here in the offi ce that he will use any ex-cuse possible as he jumped at

the chance! Here’s a little story to cover up our mistake - Edel has been selected as one of the fi nalists for the face of Therapie Clinic.

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All Hallows Eve has many traditions, some which date back to the Roman era, but many are taken from Celtic belief.

Our ancient an-cestors believed that on this night malevo-lent spirits such as the puca and the banshee roamed Ireland seek-ing out loan travels to harass.

The claim is that this is where the tra-dition of the bonfi re came from, to light up the surrounding land and ward off evil spir-its.

Galway is an an-cient city, built on the bones of many people who have gone before us, or have they? The Long Walk, is a stretch

of road by The Spanish Arch. Recently it is has been made famous by the song ‘Galway Girl’.

The beauty with the black hair is on the only woman a late night walker might meet by the river.

Long have the resi-dents of The Long Walk told half whispered tales of The Lady in White. The legend tells of a beautiful young woman who was wed to a young fi sherman from the Claddagh.

With much joy the wedding day came, alas the young wom-an was told that her beloved had not re-turned from his latest fi shing expedition and was feared drowned in the bay.

Distraught at this loss, the young wom-an fl ed in tears from the church and ran to the water’s edge.

Calling her dead loves name she hurled herself into the fi erce waters of the River Corrib and went to join her man in the deep.

There have been many reports of a young woman in white haunting The Long Walk.

Witnesses claim she will cry a name be-fore leaping into the water, though there is never a splash. Pairs of young lovers seem to attract this ghost in this area, the couples have stated that, if spotted, she will turn

and scream at them.Perhaps stranger

still is a photograph which was taken of the Claddagh a few years ago.

The image, which can be found online, was taken on a clear bright day. Caught on camera appears to be a nun dressed in a 19th Century style habit.

The nun is stand-ing facing the camera and appears to be looking directly at the cameraman.

The local pho-tographer who took the picture noted that he did not see the nun before or after the photograph was taken, nor does she appear in any other photographs.

The truth has yet to be found, but it does explain why there is a long tradition for tell-ing young people to avoid the Wolfe Tone Bridge and the Cladd-agh after dark.

So, if you’re head-ing west for a beer this Halloween and you see a nun on the bridge, it may not be the best time to fi nd religion.

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Monday 4th Nov 2013

• 5:45pm: The Ballybane Rainbows Club starts today. Rainbows is a free peer support programme for children and adults who are grieving through death, separation or any other painful transition. There will be 12 weekly meetings.

• 7:30pm: For all you budding astronomers out there, a talk will take place at The Westwood Hotel, Dangan entitled ‘The active Sun: The beating heart of our Solar System’ with Daniel Ryan, Trinity College Dublin and Nasa. Organised by the Galway Astonomy Club.

• 7:45pm: The Michael Commins Music Show takes place at The Salthill Hotel with Big Tom.

• 8pm: Catch RTE’s Kitchen Hero, Donal Skehan on his Homecooked tour at the Town Hall Theatre.

• 10pm: Don’t miss the swingin’ tunes of the fantastic Black Magic Big Band live at Busker Brownes, Cross St. A night not to be missed.

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Galway cancer survivors will join with the Kiltullagh Commu-nity Choir for an uplifting inspira-tional celebration of life in song on Halloween night, October 31 at the Town Hall Theatre at 8pm.

Something to Sing About was founded in 2012 by Galway consultant oncologist, Dr Paul Donnellan, and there are now 18 centres from Galway to Bris-bane. This special evening will

be Something to Sing About’s debut concert to a Galway au-dience. They will be joined Kil-tullagh Community Choir, who have existed for over fi fty years and are based in Kiltullagh, Athenry.

They have performed in St Nicholas Collegiate Church, the Augustinian Church, throughout the country and by invitation in Lourdes and Rome.

Brigit’s Garden is involved in this exciting project with part-ners from Estonia, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Germany, sharing knowledge about traditional uses of herbs in cooking and medicine.

Each country will take a turn hosting workshops over the next two years and the fi rst meeting is at Brigit’s Garden on 30th and 31st October! Galway herbalist Lisa Brooks will host the events as the Irish representative.

Galway has a sister! We have become a ‘sister city’, as a pact has offi cially been made with Menlo Park, California - the home of social media giant Facebook.

The friendship agreement has been in the pipeline for some time, as the American city was anxious to get back to its roots.

Galway’s Menlo Park was the former home of Dennis Oliver, who emigrated to the US during the 1800s. Along with his broth-er-in-law, DC McGlynn, they established a ranch and arched gate, that was to become known as Menlo Park, California.His-torians and offi cials have been

working hard to formalise the ties between the two cities and the announcement was made by Mayor Peter Ohtaki during his annual state of the city speech. City Mayor, Padraig Conneely attended the event on October 17th with Director of Services, Ci-aran Hayes and Menlo resident, Gerry Hanley.

The opening of a railway sta-tion in Menlo Park in 1863 was also commemorated by both Mayors and a gala dinner was held at Stanford University, at-tended by NUIG staff , civic and business leaders from Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area.

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Tuesday 5th Nov 2013

• 12pm: Today, the Postgraduate Open day takes place at NUIG for anyone interested in doing a postgraduate programme at the Bailey Allen Hall.

• 1:10pm: For a cultural midday treat, head to the Galway City Library for Lunchtime @ Th e Library, a free monthly event. Th is is a popular and longstanding event which caters for all tastes and interest levels in classical music from the novice to the professional. Each month will feature Th e Galway Ensemble in Residence, the ConTempo Quartet with a brief introduction of the music.

• 7pm: An information evening will be held at the Siobhan McKenna Th eatre, NUIG, regarding volunteering for Serve - an Irish development organisation, supporting vulnerable communities in the developing world.

• 9pm: Head to Le Petit Rouge on Dominick Street for a night of salsa with the best of latin vibes til late.

• 22:45pm: Th e Silent Disco is back at Th e Roisin Dubh – headphones at the ready for the quietest dance off in pub history.

A special Halloween Family Fun Day has been organised by the Help Emma Beat It Commit-tee on Sunday, October 27th at Greenbriar, Oranmore.

17-year-old Emma Naught-on-Heavey from Moyvilla, Oran-more, is fi ghting for her young life after she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in January this year.

Fibrolamellar Hepatocellu-lar Carcinorma, or Fibrolamellar for short, aff ects only one in fi ve million people and, as a result, she has to travel to the USA for expensive treatment. It is so rare that her type of cancer had never been diagnosed in Gal-way before.

Following consultation with experts in the fi eld, she un-derwent an operation in Dub-lin to remove over half of her liver, her gall bladder and 25 lymph node glands, and is now working with a top specialist in America after the cancer re-turned in April.

All kids are invited to come along in their trick or treat cos-tumes for loads of Halloween fun games, kids disco, barbe-

que and massive bake sale. A family ticket is only €10

and children’s entertainment is free. Entertainment includes: fancy dress, bouncing castles, bucking bronco, kids disco, face painting, mega Halloween Games, bake sale, raffl e and much, much more.

Tickets can be purchased online at the Help Emma Beat It website www.helpemmabe-atitfund.ie

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The Living City Initiative al-lows home buyers and commer-

cial property owners to apply for tax relief on the refurbishment of historic buildings.

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VOX What’s the CRAIC?POP

Neil RooneyThe craic is I’m enjoying the market in Galway in the sunshine with my baby daughter - so life is good.

Maneol BorgesThe craic is to be happy, make money, enjoy life but not too fast, because if you live fast, you die young!

Gareth DunleavyWhat’s the craic? Look around you. Galway is the craic; all you have to do is look around.

Callan QualterThe craic is Galway man… I know tonight everyone is out celebrating a 21st. I’m just coming back to Galway for the weekend from Dublin and it is the best craic.

Alex KennyThe craic is good and the best craic is in Galway especially in the Electric Garden and Theatre.

Herminia Ayala and Tony BurkeThe craic in Galway is beautiful. Halloween is coming and it’s a very magical time. Yesterday was the eclipse. I enjoyed it as the moon was so beautiful. Now is the time to energy for winter.

The craic is mighty.

Marcelo LimaNever give up on the things which make you smile. That’s the craic.

Cathal WalshThe craic is working in a hair studio, transforming the nation, changing people’s hair, making them look a bit different. That’s my craic.

Dylan Couteperoumal and Lee Shaughnessy Lee: The Craic is all of the girls!

Dylan: Just going around town with friends, eating in Supermacs.

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Wednesday 6th Nov 2013

• 7:30pm: Anam Cara will facilitate an information evening at the Ballybane Enterprise Centre for bereaved parents and the guest speaker is psychotherapist Brid Carroll.

• 8pm: The Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet, one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world, presents Giselle at the Town Hall Theatre. Exclusive to the theatre, it is a haunting and visually captivating performance of the world’s favourite romantic ballets.

• Sit back with a glass of your favourite wine and some nibbles for a jazz evening with Michelle Lally at Le Petit Rouge on Dominick Street.

• Enjoy Priority Wednesday with DJ Benzo at The Bentley for electro hip hop and lots of party dropping anthems.

CRAICING NEWS!!!By Avril HORAN

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State Representative, Marty Walsh, whose parents are from Connemara, will be fi ghting the biggest political battle of his life, as he takes on the voters to be-come Mayor of Boston, USA, on November 5th.

Marty secured a place after the September 24th preliminary, where only two candidates out

of 12 could go forward to con-test the seat left by outgoing Mayor, Thomas M. Menino. His rival is John Connolly. With his father, John, hailing from Carna and his mother, Mary, from Ros-muc, Marty will be hoping for the luck of the Irish - and their support - to gain the powerful seat at the top table.

A wearable device to help improve the quality of life for Parkinson’s disease patients is being developed in a €4.7 million project involving NUI Galway.

The project has completed its fi rst phase, gathering data on the movements of those liv-

ing with Parkinson’s. The completed ‘Personal

Health System’ will include a portable system, capable of identifying the motor status of patients, guiding them to walk more easily, and deliv-ering real-time data to their medical care teams.

Good news for Galway tour-ism in the budget as the VAT rate will remain at 9% for the hospi-tality sector. This follows a strong campaign by to keep the rate at 9%.

The reduced VAT fi gure was introduced in July 2011 on a tri-al basis and is due to go up to 13.5% at the end of 2013.

“The reduction in VAT has helped the tourism sector sur-vive through these very diffi cult times,” explains Roger O’Sullivan, owner of The Galleon Restau-rant.

“It is the key to sustaining employment and has allowed us to be more competitive as a county.”

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Th ursday 7th Nov 2013

• 8pm: The Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet presents Giselle at the Town Hall Theatre.

• 8pm: First Music Contact have announced the line-up for the FMC Tour, which takes place at the Roisin Dubh, Dominick Street, featuring three of Ireland’s fi nest bands: Le Galaxie, Funeral Suits and Daithí plus a local support act.

• The talented Keith McDonald will bring the best of his music and swingin’ songs to Le Petit Rouge on Dominick Street.

• 9pm: Catch Four Men and A Bass at the Townhouse Bar and Music Venue.

• 9pm: Royal Wood play at The Roisin Dubh.

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Is féidir a bheith ag ithe go folláin agus sult a bhaint as - níl ann ach bob a bhualadh ar an tean-ga agus seans a thabhairt do rudaí nua. Measc cócó gan siúcra le iógart próibhitheach no le habhacád brúite fi ú, le mousse seacláide a dhéanamh a mbeidh an uigeacht cheart aige gan siúcra ar bith ann. Cuir isteach xylitol nó stevia (ón siopa bia sláinte) le blas milis a chur air. Cócaráil slisní úll milis le beagán uisce go mbeidh anlann tiubh agat. Bain úsáid as sin in áit siúcra i gcístí, scónaí agus mar anlann ar phancóga nó leite. Cuir beagán cainéil ar le blas breise. Sneaic iontach iad síolta puim-cín, lus na gréine agus seasamain róstaithe ar phanna tirim le slisne cnó cócó. Ceann eile ná almóinní rósta ar an tslí chéanna le púdar paiprice nó sillí - ach ná ith an iomarca! Baintear sásamh agus sult as an mbia chomh maith le fuinneamh, mar sin bain úsáid as bia an tséasúir chun tú féin a dhéanamh breá teolaí agus sásta - anraith de cairéid agus meacan bán, stobhach baile, scónaí & pancóga teo, úlla bácáilte, píosaí oráiste istigh le tae luibheanna, agus sceallóga de chairéid, meacan bán agus cál catach, le beagán salainn agus piobar dubh.

Trick your Treats!It IS possible to eat clean and treat yourself - you just need to

retrain and trick your tastebuds. Stir some sugar-free cocoa powder into probiotic yoghurt - or even mashed avocado - for a chocolate mousse with all the texture and none of the sugar. Add stevia or xyli-tol (from healthfood shop) to sweeten. Reduce slices of sweet apple and a splash of water in a saucepan until you have a thick sauce. Use this instead of sugar in cakes, as a topping for pancakes and por-ridge. Add cinnamon for extra warmth. For a delicious snack, toast some pumpkin, sunfl ower & sesame seeds with coconut slivers on a dry pan (keep shaking so it doesn’t burn). Try roasting almonds with a good shake of smoked paprika - just don’t eat too many! We eat for pleasure as well as fuel, so use warming seasonal foods for that feelgood factor - homemade soups, stews, hot scones & pancakes, baked apples, satsuma segments added to fruit teas, and roasted parsnips and carrot chips sprinkled with sea salt and black pepper.

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