Not that The Menu ever needs an excuse to head west to the City of the Tribes but surely the return of the annual Galway Food Festival (March 29-April 2) is as good a reason as any.

The High Court has cleared the way for the winner of a multi-million-euro contract for the new Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) campus at Grangegorman to proceed with the project.

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn defended his broken election promise not to increase student fees by saying he preferred to spend the money on vulnerable students in schools.

FROM James Brown to Justin Timberlake, hip-hop dancing has been around since the 1950s, and who would have thought it but the Irish are pretty good at it.

THE Government is clinging to plans for a super-prison at Thornton Hall while ignoring reservations about its effectiveness, a conference on criminology has been told.