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With COVID-19 becoming a persistent public health crisis both within the county, nationally and globally, Town Mayor, Cllr. Frankie Keena, has urged the local community to continue to adhere to HSE and Government guidelines in such surreal and unprecedented times.

SIMON ARMITAGE combines an ability to speak to a broad, non-specialist audience – he is one of the few living British poets the bloke down The Dog and Duck might be able to name – with a knack for acquiring establishment accolades.

Macnas announce its most ambitious project to date – the world’s first ever hero’s journey – the legend of Gilgamesh. The epic will be staged as four individual events throughout the year, comissioned by Galway 2020 for the European Captial of Culture celebrations.

SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, will each be presented at the Town Hall Theatre, across two days, by the Cyclone Rep theatre-in-education company.

Kindred musical spirits, Joan Larkin and Alfie Kilduff, have garnered a wealth of on and off stage experience during their years with Athlone Musical Society (AMS).

IT TOOK Phileas Fogg 79 days to journey around the world in Jules Verne's celebrated novel, but British cyclist Mark Beaumont went one better, making that epic trek in just over 78 days.

THE TWO Steves, the bearded wonders, one armed with a ukulele, the other with a guitar, both weapons of choice set to maximum fun and sheer craic - is there any better duo in Galway?

HUMANITY DICK, the acclaimed one-man show about the colourful life and times of Galway MP, humanitarian, and serial duellist Richard Martin, will be performed in what was once his home.

Aisling Tierney started her hairdressing career in Castlebar in one of the most well known salons in the town and is now back in Castlebar in It's U Hair Salon.

Margaret Atwood, the leading Canadian author and Booker Prize winner for The Blind Assassin and The Testaments, and whose The Handmaid's Tale has become of the great works of Feminist fiction, will be in Galway in 2020.