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DUBLIN group, I Draw Slow will perform in Glór on Saturday. Their second album, Redhills, was recorded in Windmill Lane Studio and since its release last month, it has reached the Irish iTunes download chart and was number one in the singer/songwriter category. It followed on from Downside, their first release, which was well received and continues to sell around Europe.

THE world premiere of a new play by Enda Walsh starring leading Irish actor Cillian Murphy; a major new exhibition by Hughie O’Donoghue; two Shakespeare productions from Ed Hall’s Propeller Theatre Company; a new play by Mike Bartlett; AfroCubism, featuring Toumani Diabaté and Eliades Ochoa; Blondie; Macnas; Colm Tóibín and Emma Donoghue, are just some of the attractions lined up for the 34th Galway Arts Festival next month.

TRADITIONAL Irish music is a legacy that has never died; it is still growing, taught and appreciated all over the world.

WITH less than three weeks to go until the sixth Ennis Street Festival takes over the town, the winners of the schools programme design competition have been announced.

EXHIBITORS and their tutors were highly commended for their efforts at the opening in Ennistymon of an exhibition by mature art students of the local vocational school.

The WayDIRECTED BY: Emilio EstevezSTARRING: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger, James NesbittCERT: 12AThere was a time when Emilio Estevez was as famous, if not quite as notorious, as his younger brother Charlie Sheen. They made movies together, too, playing bin men in Men At Work and wild west outlaws in Young Guns – almost 25 years ago now, when the western became briefly cool and Emilio played the lead role of Billy The Kid. That one also starred fellow brat pack member Keifer Sutherland, who was more famous in those days for being ditched at the altar by Julia Roberts than he was for hunting terrorists.Estevez has turned up on TV opposite mad Charlie in Two And A Half Men and played a younger version of his father Martin Sheen in The West Wing. Movie lovers of a certain age may remember him best as the chap from The Mighty Ducks, but for many of us, he will …

Women’s work. It’s a simple throwaway phrase but it is enough to send the hearts and blood pressure of any liberal into orbit. For many, the idea of women’s work and men’s work is completely abhorrent. Even as a concept, it is difficult to understand. Surely work is work and, as such, is for everyone regardless of sex. What is also interesting and equally insulting to many is that it only refers to the sex of the person who is carrying out the work and yet the connotations of it are as far-reaching as any direct insult. However, I believe that to dismiss the phrase as merely the sexist utterance of men in positions of authority or at the head of households is just wrong. It is also very wrong and insensitive to think that the phrase is derogatory or that it only refers to tasks that should be carried out indoors. Yes, it can be used in a derogatory …