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IT HAS been five years since feted South African director Yael Farber last featured in the Galway Arts Festival. In 2008, Molora, her visceral and compelling version of Sophocles’ Oresteia was one of the high points of that year’s programme.

I am a reader. I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. A good thriller is one of my basic pleasures, and I tend to read it slowly, picking it up and putting it down after a few chapters. I like the sense of anticipation of what is coming next as I insert a book marker or fold over the corner of a page when I have reached a particularly exciting moment.

FOR MORE than two decades Irish actor and comedian Jimeoin has been a household name in Australia but on Thursday October 21 he returns to Ireland to play The Galway Comedy Festival.

A FARMER, lawyer, writer, and Pakistani-American, Daniyal Mueenuddin is something of a Renaissance man, who has experienced many different kinds of life in many different parts of the globe.

The biannual series of cultural events at Coole Park is now drawing to a close but there are still a few events to look forward to before the end of the programme.

The biannual series of cultural events at Coole Park finishes today (Friday) with a reading by Galway poet Pete Mullineaux.

GALWAY POET Pete Mullineaux will read at the next North Beach Poetry Nights in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday at 9pm.