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Brendan Keeley’s voyage continues on RTE’s The Voice

SINGER Brendan Keeley is looking forward to the next stage of ‘The Voice of Ireland’ as he took another step closer to perhaps securing the show’s lucrative prize of a recording contract with Universal Records.

The current line up of The Fureys & Davey Arthur.

Win tickets to see the Fureys & Davey Arthur in the Tullamore Court Hotel

The Fureys & Davey Arthur make their fourth appearance in the Tullamore Court Hotel on Saturday March 3 and the Offaly Express and www.offalyexpress.ie are giving you a chance to win tickets.

The current line up of The Fureys & Davey Arthur.

The Fureys & Davey Arthur at the Tullamore Court Hotel on Saturday March 3

The Fureys & Davey Arthur make their fourth appearance in the Tullamore Court Hotel on Saturday March 3. The band was formed in 1978 literally by accident. George, Paul and Davey were playing in Denmark with their own band called the Buskers and Eddie and Finbar, while touring in Germany were involved in a road accident. When George, Paul and Davey got news of the accident they immediately travelled to Germany to be with their brothers. They then decided that they should all be playing together and this was the start of the Fureys and Davey Arthur.

Evergreen launch their new EP at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre.

Evergreen launch new EP

EVERGREEN, fresh out of Lakeland Studios after recording their 4 track EP, will be in Birr Theatre & Arts Centre this Saturday, February 18 to perform and launch their EP.

The cast of Ballycumber Drama Group's 'Out of Order'.

Hilarious ‘Out of Order’ hits Tuar Ard

BALLYCUMBER Amateur Drama Group staged ‘Out of Order’ on Saturday & Sunday night in Ballycumber Hall.

Birr Film Club present 'The Skin I Live In' on Tuesday, February 21. Further information and booking on (057) 91 22911.

Varied programme in Birr Theatre & Arts Centre

BIRR Film Club presents ‘The Skin I Live In’ on Tuesday, February 21 at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre.

Bressie, one of the headline acts at this year's Teen Aware at Charleville Castle, Tullamore on Good Friday.

Bressie confirmed for Teen Aware gig in Tullamore

Mullingar musician Bressie is confirmed for this year’s Teen Aware at Charleville Castle on Good Friday, April 6. Teen Aware is an event which commenced in 2011 to create suicide awareness.

Saints and Scholars by Maurice Harron on the Tullamore bypass

€45,000 new ‘gateway’ sculpture planned for Birr

Birr will get a new ‘gateway’ sculpture on the Tullamore road, in a move to further complete the recommendations under the commissioned Birr Public Realm Plan, which is forming the basis of the works currently being carried out in Birr.

Westmeath's Senior Executive Librarian Gearoid O'Brien, Stan McCormack, County Librarian for Westmeath Mary Farrell, Ray Metters (author) and Kitty Flynn.

World War 1 book launched in Kilbeggan

AN enthusiastic and much-welcomed audience filled the lecture room of Kilbeggan Library last Wednesday for the launch of a book on Kilbeggan and its neighbourhood during World War 1.

Phillippe Petit walking a tight rope between the Twin Towers in New York in September 1974, the subject of an award-winning documentary Man on Wire, which will be screened at Tullamore Film Club this Friday, January 27 in the Presbyterian Church, High Street at 8pm.

Threading the tightrope at Tullamore Film Club

MAN ON WIRE: Me and heights just don’t go together, so we generally keep a pretty big distance between us.

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Banjo festival financial boost for Tullamore

news that the world renowned Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival is to re-locate to Tullamore was greeted with delight in the town last week especially as no festival was held last year.

Unforgiven

Award winning drama in Birr

Acorn Theatre Company bring Unforgiven to Birr this Saturday January 28. This comic of a play bears the same name as the Clint Eastwood western.

Brendan Keeley performing on 'The Voice of Ireland'.

Keeley’s TV takeover

IT appears it was the republic of Keeley television with Tullamore singer, Brendan Keeley performing on the ‘The Voice of Ireland’ while his son, Sam graced television screens in RTE’s drama, RAW last week.

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