Galway Advertiser 2003/2003_06_05/GA_05062003_E1_014.pdf 

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Biblical epics and British writers for the Galway Arts Festival
ONE OF Britain's major poets, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and one of Britain's best loved writers, Willie Russell are two of the headline acts at this year's Galway Arts Festival, along with a major new show from Macnas and the Belgrade Theatre. The Galway Arts Festival will launch this y e a r ' s programme of events in the Backstage Bar of the Radisson SAS hotel tomorrow al 6pm. The festival will announce details of what promises to be an exciting line-up of theatre. concerts, exhibitions, and happenings from July 15 to 27. Linton Kwesi Johnson is best described as a reggae p o d . His poems such as 'Inglan Is a Bitch'. 'Mi Revalueshanary Frend". and i f 1 Waz a Tap Natch Poet' arc written to reflect the sounds and style of West Indian speech, while the poems" form metre have the groove of reggae music. Johnson also runs LKJ records and has released a number of his own albums as well as those by other artists. For the arts festival. Johnson will be appearing live in the Radisson SAS hotel with the Denis Bouvell Dub Band. This is the first time he has ever played a concert like this, of music and poetry, in Ireland, so this is a major coup for the festival. Writer Willie Russell, known for such gems as
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Brothers, is returning to Galway to perform his new songs at the Radisson. Russell will be joined by a full band and will be accompanied by Tim Ferth who has worked with Madness Macnas and The Belgrade Theatre are currently in Coventry rehearsing a new work by Vincent Woods called The
Mysteries. The Mysteries is

remaining 70 members of the Galway community cast will join them. The performance of the Mysteries will take place on the tennis courts in NUI, Galway and will be a visually spectacular presentation of stories from
The Holy Bible. --

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directed by Mikel Murfi (whom Macnas have appointed as associate director of the company) and Richard Heyhow. The show has been in preparation for the last two years and rehearsals began in Coventry recently. The rehearsals feature all of the Coventry community cast and 15 of the Galway community cast. In three weeks lime they will all come lo Galway where the

Willy Russell

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West has highest number of heavily addicted smokers in the country
BY MARY O'CONNOR THE WEST of Ireland has the highest number of heavily addicted smokers in the country, according to a new study released to coincide with World No Tobacco Day on Saturday last. It reveals 64 per cent of smokers in cravings that smokers experience upon Connacht are heavily addicted compared waking in the morning." with 54 per cent in Munsler and 57 per cent Two people die each day in the West of in Leinster Ireland from smoking induced disease The survey outlines that the main method Smoking kills 7.000 people in Ireland each of measuring tobacco addiction in the past year, this is 10 times more than the number was based on the number of cigarettes killed annually in road accidents. Some 300 smoked per day with heavy smokers of these people are from this region. classified as being those who smoke more A recent Western Health Board study than 20 cigarettes a day. However, due to revealed 26 per cent of 12 to 13-year-olds in restrictions on places where people can Galway city had tried smoking and four per smoke, smoking cessation experts are now cent were current smokers. Almost half ol relying on measuring the desire to smoke nine to 1 7-year-olds in the west admit to upon waking in the morning as a more having smoked at some stage. About a relevant means of evaluating tobacco quarter of adults in the west smoke. dependency. Smoking is a major cause of 90 per cent of lung cancer deaths. 25 per cent of deaths Under this model, heavily dependent from heart disease and about 75 per cent of smokers are classified as those who smoke deaths from bronchitis and emphysema. within 30 minutes of waking in the morning. According to the World Health Speaking at the study launch, smoking cessation expert Professor Karl Fagerstrom Organisation, tobacco is responsible lor said smokers are now heavily restricted as to three million deaths worldwide each year. when and where they smoke. Smoking is widely recognised as one of "Smoking is being banned in an the hardest habits to break. Stopping it will increasing number of places and hence probably be the single most important thing smokers may be smoking less cigarettes per people can do for their health, said Dr day. However, a reduction in the number of Sheelah Ryan, the chief executive ol the cigarettes smoked per day is not necessarily WHB at a recent health board meeting. evidence of reduced dependency as smokers "There are a number of remedies and can be inhaling harder and their physical support systems available to help people dependency remains the same. Time-to-first- who have resolved to quit. Remember, cigarette is now a very valid measure of giving up will have enormous benefits not tobacco addiction which indicates the strong just for you but for your family as well."

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