ENNIS actor, Kelly Gough has been a fixture on TV screens over the last few years in Raw and at the moment she is on both TG4 and BBC, playing hard bitten reporter, Alix in the Irish language drama Scúp, set in a struggling Belfast local newspaper.

Ennis Civic Trust and Ennis Town Council in association with the Irish Vietnam Veterans Memorial Project are seeking to commission a memorial sculpture dedicated to Irish men and women who served in allied military service in South East Asia during the period 1959-1975, including the Vietnam War to the value of €120,000.

KILLIMER native, Professor Michael O’Connell will launch a DVD depicting the life of lexicographer Peter O’Connell on Monday in Knockerra Hall at 8pm. The DVD was researched by Brother Seán McNamara, while the accompanying music is by Christy McNamara.

A NEW exhibition officially opens in the Burren College of Art next Wednesday featuring works by masters in fine arts students, John Freeman and Jill Miller.

A Scariff youth group is participating in this year’s X-HALE Short Film Festival, an initiative developed by the Irish Cancer Society to encourage young people to take action on the issue of smoking in their communities through the visual and engaging medium of film.

Dark SkiesDIRECTED BY: Scott StewartSTARRING: Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Kadan Rockett, Dakota GoyoCERT: 15A

Seven Psychopaths is a superbly unusual film. Dark, despite the bright lights of Hollywood, hilarious in the face of massive cruelty and violence, it strikes a fine line between comedy and tragedy in a very similar manner to films like In Bruges and The Guard.

SHARON Maguire is determined that memories of her late mother will never fade. Mary Maguire, who lived in Clarefield, west of Kilkee, died in the early hours of December 14, 2011. She had Motor Neurone Disease (MND), which was diagnosed in May 2006, having been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2003.