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On Thursday June 25 a major event will be held in the Annebrooke Hotel in Mullingar in response to the rising unemployment issue in the county. Titled an Opportunity Day, this event is aimed at those who have lost jobs or at risk of losing jobs and who are considering their options.

Connacht face a tough opener in this season’s Magners League when they host Welsh outfit Ospreys on the weekend of September 4.

COMEDIENNE, ACTRESS, and ventriloquist Nina Conti was born and raised in the Hampstead area of London surrounded by intellectuals, actors, and artists.

NEW GALWAY theatre company Danú will be officially launched this weekend before travelling to Scotland perform the play Dolores at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

I was surprised to learn recently that I shared a theatrical experience with the journalist and commentator Fintan O’Toole. Years ago Fintan went to the toilet during one of the many intervals in John Arden’s The Non-Stop Connolly Show (it was non-stop for an amazing 24-hours). The toilet was just behind the stage. When Fintan came out, the performance had restarted, and he was on stage. The audience applauded the embarrassed young Fintan.

Galway Airport is to receive €344,619 under the Regional Airports Subvention fund, it was announced this week.

With over a 1,000 live performances to date, Drew De Four is a 6ft 7 inches Belgian-American, singer-songwriter, dueling pianist, actor, and multi-instrumentalist.

Neil Delamere has more than made his mark on Kilkenny society as a result of his annual appearance at the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in the city and he is en route back early in the New Year for another side-splitting show.

Arriving next week in the Town Hall is hit comedy show Dirty Dusting starring Adele King (Twink). This is a hilarious play about three pensioner cleaners who start a telephone sex line...and that’s when the fun really begins.

WRITER/PERFORMER Peadar De Burca returns to the Town Hall next week with the final episode of his hit comic trilogy dissecting the male psyche and its desires. Having already regaled audiences with his comic explorations of What Men Want and Why Men Cheat he now spills the beans on Why Men Marry. And as it transpires, De Burca is singularly well placed to discuss the topic because he married his Polish girlfriend Wanda just a couple of weeks ago. Indeed the material in the show largely charts his own odyssey toward that fateful phrase ‘I do’. “With the other shows I was interviewing other men about what they wanted and why they cheated, etc, but this one is much more about my own personal experiences,” he discloses over an afternoon coffee. “A friend came to see one of the other shows and they observed afterwards that whenever I was talking about my own experiences rather than those of people I’d interviewed it seemed to come more from the heart and consequently worked better. So I took that on board and this show is about my own marriage experiences and my wedding and my ideas about it all. Of course you’re still taking into account the people around you, your mother, your bride, her family and they’re all included in the story too.”