FOLK artist Luka Bloom is about to embark on a café tour of Clare, briefly crossing the border for a show in Gort.

KENNY’S Bar in Lahinch welcomes singer songwriter Declan O’Rourke this September for one night only. The Dublin-based artist will perform in the seaside resort on Thursday, September 12.

THE closing date is fast approaching for those looking to enter the Wings Over Mountshannon Song Competition, held in conjunction with the Mountshannon Traditional Music Festival, which takes place from September 27 to 29.

MILTOWN Malbay is known all over the country for the Willie Clancy Festival and a bronze sculpture of the famous musician will soon be unveiled in the middle of the town.

ElysiumDIRECTED BY: Neill BlomkampSTARRING: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice BragaCERT: 15A

MARK Bowers was shocked when consultant urological surgeon, Garrett Durkan looked him in the eye in the Mid-Western Radiation Oncology Centre, Limerick and confirmed he had prostate cancer.

A BUILDING with a 130-year history in Tulla has been transformed over the past three years from a shell to a community asset. It preserves not only the building’s heritage but also the music and history of the locality. 

INSPIRED by the works of John O’Donohue, American pastor Reverend Ed Bacon sat in a room overlooking the Burren and Galway Bay for a month in 2010 writing the first drafts of his book, 8 Habits of Love. Last week, he was leading a retreat in a hot and humid Mississippi but this week, he is having a retreat of his own and launching that book back on the rocky North Clare coast.