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Prosperous Dramatic Society will have the honour of opening the 60th RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival when the curtain rises at the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone on Thursday May 3. With their production of Deadline by Robert Massey, the group hopes to follow on from their success at the event last year where they finished as runners-up.

THE PIER, a new Irish film, which has already won praise at film festivals in the Czech Republic, Israel, Greece, and Georgia, will be shown at The Eye this week.

MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, fairy folk playing pranks, romance, and mischief, and on this occasion, hippies and free love, all combine in Shakespeare’s wonderful A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

It is not just Richard Dawkins, though he is a typical, contemporary, example. And it does seem as if science, dazzled, in many cases justifiably, by its own success in extending the boundaries of what we know about the physical world is uniquely liable to this particularly modern form of arrogance.

While it may not admit it, it is hard to imagine the EU not having a Plan B if the unthinkable - or rather not as unthinkable as it was six months ago - happens and the euro ceases to be.

Tomorrow will see former Galway Mayor and Galway West TD Michael D Higgins become the ninth president of Ireland. It will be a proud day for everyone from the city and county he has called home for the last 50 years.

Tomorrow will see former Galway Mayor and Galway West TD Michael D Higgins become the ninth president of Ireland. It will be a proud day for everyone from the city and county he has called home for the last 50 years.

FROM THE director of The Cell and The Fall (Tarsem Singh) and the producers of 300 (Gianni Nunnari, Mark Canton) comes Immortals, an epic tale of treachery, vengeance and destiny.

The awesome foursome of musicians that is NoCrows bring their energy and flair to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar for a concert on Wednesday October 12 at 8pm. NoCrows boasts a line-up of flamenco/manouche guitarist Felip, Waterboy fiddle star Steve Wickham, cello/mandolin talent Anna Houston, and hot double bassist Eddie Lee. The band’s repertoire is truly global as their music ranges from Irish traditional to classical and gypsy swing as well as folk tunes from Finland, Moldova, Russia, Venezuela, Greece and beyond, as witnessed on acclaimed albums Magpie and the recently released No Crows On The Moon. NoCrows has toured widely in Europe and Ireland, including major festivals Glastonbury and Dranouter in Belgium. Come and check them out.

The warm, funny, poignant and critically acclaimed new Irish play Brighton by Jim Nolan plays at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday October 5 at 8pm.