The production of a paperback devoted to short creative pieces is a fine culmination for a community to achieve and once again Loughrea Creative Writer’s Group have produced a 250 page Razzle Dazzle. With the financial support of Galway County Arts Office, this book and series of workshops, organised and edited by writer broadcaster, Liam Nolan.

This time there is a darker set of emotions touching on anger, hurt, spite, meanness, rage, despair and indifference. The language is a bit cruder and grotty expletives surface as does a hard hitting set of stories about clerical abuse.