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“IF YOU want to guarantee putting a smile on your face, it’s hard to think of a better show to see,” so declared The Daily Telegraph about the English comedy sketch group Idiot of Ants, who make their Irish debut in Galway next week.

It’s that time of year again - when hysteria takes over and belly laughs become the norm - the Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival is due back in town.

THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed and award winning Galway crime writer Ken Bruen will be reading from his work at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.

WHEN MICHAEL Jackson performed his heavy-rock classic ‘Beat It’ in concert, the woman playing guitar for that incendiary solo was Jennifer Batten.

The world is dying, apparently. This video is a comment on global warming. It’s a ballad, a collaboration between comedian Joe Cornish and Richard Blackwood. One, Two, Three, Four, Get with the wicked!

Last Saturday local songwriters Deborah McKeown, Pete Duffy, and Eddie Keenan (and surprise duo Fergal Cox and Ross McDonald) played to a packed house at the latest AMP gig in The Shack pub.

ON FEBRUARY 1 1996, at the Town Hall theatre, Druid presented the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s Beauty Queen Of Leenane thereby launching one of the most spectacularly successful writing careers in modern theatre.

DARKER THAN the lavish trailer suggests, The Duchess tells the surprisingly grim story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her marriage during the late 18th century.

A second storming party under Colonel Hewson was also beaten back. Wounded and dying men lay heaped on both sides of the breach in the wall. Body parts were scattered everywhere.