‘The Birth of Modern Music’ is the programme for the Music for Galway Midwinter Festival, which runs from Jan 17 to 19.

CONTEMPORARY artists often use unlikely materials in their work. Arlene McPadden is no exception: the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology graduate turned to taxidermy in her last year in college, creating artworks from stuffed wild animals.

MICKY Donnelly’s new exhibition at Triskel Christchuch — Notes on a Minor Scale — has its roots in a concert he attended at the venue last year.

A woman who failed to pass her first-year exams in a nursing degree course at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology faces being jailed unless she complies with a court order preventing her from attending lectures.

Aideen Barry’s animated film Possession satirises our tendency to live beyond our means in pursuit of happiness, says Tina O’Sullivan

Three creatives explain their work to Tina O’Sullivan as they prepare for their graduate degree shows

THE parents of an Irish university student who fell to his death from a motorway bridge in northern Spain are preparing to travel to Zaragoza today to bring his body home.

THE international police agency, Interpol, has issued an alert for an Irishman suspected of murdering a student on the Clare-Galway border over five years ago.

A young art student found dead five years ago in a burnt out caravan was murdered, cold case detectives revealed tonight.

LOVE is... staying alive.

Two Irish diplomats are meeting authorities in Bolivia today to demand a full investigation into the death of Michael Dwyer.

TRINITY College Dublin has been named as The Sunday Times University of the Year 2007.

The former vice president of the United States, Al Gore, will be visiting Ireland to deliver a keynote address at a forum to debate the Constitution for Europe.

SIPTU will not re-enter social partnership negotiations without substantial guarantees from the Government that it will act to significantly improve social and employment standards.