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That Was the Week That Was!

numbers from it. The next time she comes to Galway she will have to play for a week as there were so many disappointed people who were unable to see her per form this time around. Guest act Major to Minor were very entertaining and made quite a few new fans on the night. They played Jazz, Blues, Country and original numbers. They are very versatile musicians and J hope they return to Galway again. The highlight of their show was THE HERPES SONG, enough said! Major to Minor are Maria Walsh, Carole Nelson and Isabel Ni Chuircain. The Hennigans Blues Band proved to be one of the best live and lively bands on the scene at the moment. If you want to dance then these are the boys with the rhythm. All kinds of individuals were seen rally ripping up the floor at the Festival Club. Richard from the HiFi Dept. in O'Connor TV. Well, he must have legs like Steve Cram at the rate he was bopping. Sean McDonagh from the Quays was doing a lot of fancy footwork and I even spot ted Jimmy Brick on the fr inges of the dance floor, no sign of any other politicians though. What a shame that the Burrenmount is not be ing used like this on a more regular basis and what a pity we can't have the HBB band more often.

wits about them. I mean make a mistake on the air and half the country is laughing at you. Mark Cagney himself was as I ex pected except for the baggy tartan trousers. This is no egotistical D.J., he is just a really nice guy who really enjoys doing his job. You get the feeling that he would do it even if he wasn't get ting paid for it. Its no wonder he plays the best music on Radio 2. He owns 5,000 albums and to think my mother thinks that I am bad and 1 have only one tenth of his collection Padraig O'Flynn who is based in the Galway Studio showed me how the show behind the show works. Its like sitting at the controls of an aircraft and I believe that the studio will be even more up to date in the near future. It was an enjoyable experience and thanks to Cathal O'Doherty, Willie O'Reilly, Padraig O'Flynn and Mark Cagney for ar ranging it.

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A GREAT L A R K Finally, the Lark in the Park was the perfect end to a great Festival. It was a well run event and it went off without any unsavoury incidents. The surprise ap pearance of three members Lead singer Barry Brennan of Those Nervous Animals giving his all of the Waterboys was a real at Galway's 1st Lark in the Park held in sunny Salthill last Sunday. and what a pity they treat did not play longer but it Photo: Brenda Fitzsimons was never definite that they would play on the day so we the space to mention had to be satisfied with just The Arts Festival was rounded off in fine style on Sunday everyone but it was a a couple of songs. Unfor with an excellent Lark in the Park. Sore we said it would be memorable session. Special tunately, I missed T o o the best Lark of Summer and nobody has said we were guest for the night was Ed Much for the White Man. I wrong! What a superb Arts Festival its been, the best ever. die Yates from Coronation enjoyed T . N . A . and the Of course it was . not the guise of Hogans Ceili Street who played Bodhran. Wing and only heard one possible for me to get to all Band. Arty McGlynn and If you weren't there, well, number by Tuesday Blue. of the events but I enjoyed Brendan Regan treated us you missed one hell of a Radio 2 very kindly arrang those I attended. The II to a great guitar jam ses good session! ed for me to see Mark p.m. Sunday night tradi sion, Tony Holleran gave us Cagney putting together his tional session at Druid was some very witty songs and Sunday Show which turned his son is a beautiful boy superb, being the closing out to be a little different soprano. Dolores Keane session of the traditional from his regular Sunday Mary Coughlan was as and her aunts Sarah and Show because "like good weekend I knew it would be good as ever but then I am Rita were in fine form. Sean wine the LP show doesn't a bit special and it certainly probably biased in her case. Ryan and Ringo McDonagh travel very well"--Cagney. was. Almost four hours of I have never seen her look were irreprisable and we It was interesting to see it music and song from the ing so well on stage. Her had some fine dancing put together and D.J.'s "creme de la creme" of new album should be good thrown in tpo. I haven't got really do have to have their traditional musicians under as she treated us to a few

There is life after the Arts Festival. Ollie Jennings prepares for another gig while most of Galway's entertainment people take a break after the Festival. Makem A Clancy are in the Great Southern Hotel on Saturday. August 30th. Its over a year since they played here and they play at the Festival in Tralee before coming to the Southern for their only Galway date this year. Tickets are a reasonably 16 from Star, Zhivago, Golden Discs and Powells.

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To highligh the growing exam problem in Irish society, V20, near the even of the Leaving Cert, results, interviewed several candidates, the troops in the trenches of the bitter war of examinations. U20: Your name is John X? John X: Yes. U20: Do you do exams? (nod from John X : ) Why? John X: Well, er. I don't really know. Just all my friends were doing exams, and I felt that, if I wanted to be one of them, I had to do exams as well -- I didn't want to be the one they'd call 'chicken' or 'baby'. So I did some. At first it was easy, just the odd exam; nothing really mattered when I was doing exams. I thought I'd easily be able to give them up. But then one of my friend's -- some friend! -- told me about these state exams I tried them. They were much better than anylhing I had ever tried before. But I ended up doing one almost every day during June. I couldn't help mysielf. U20: What can you do now? John X : I really don't know. I'll have to go to University, to do more exams; I need them. There's a large supply here in (jalway. U20: Thank you. Mary Y . , how long have you been

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U20: And what about the results? Mary Y : I can't wait -- they'll mean a whole new range of exams. U20: Thank you. Pat Z . , you stopped doing exams. How? Pat Z: It was just hard work. I did quite a few exams, then 1 seemed to come out the other side. I didn't need to do any more. It was like being freed from prison. I haven't done an exam since. ...Two sides of the story. The exam problem exists. We cannot ignore it. Peter Arnold

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