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Prince Charles last week delivered an impassioned speech in which he warned that “the world had less than 100 months to save the planet.” He warned that as the world’s economy headed deeper into recession it would be easy to lose sight of the bigger picture and forget the reality that the world is facing significant levels of climate change and global warming.

With just four weeks remaining to the start of the Ballinasloe Musical Society’s performance of Hello Dolly, work is well underway for the production, with director/choreographer, Mary McDonagh; associate director/choreographer, Steffen Jorgensen; and musical director, John Roe.

For a country that is often highly conservative, Ireland has produced many important and influential socialist activists, thinkers, and politicians, and many of them have come from Galway.

A PHENOMENON, a force of nature, and possibly the greatest comedian to ever come out of Ireland, Tommy Tiernan will headline the Comedy Club at Cuba* on Friday February 20.

TOMMY TIERNAN is about to undertake his greatest challenge yet. In the Nuns Island Theatre during the Easter weekend, he will attempt to perform 36 hours of non-stop stand up comedy in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. What can we expect? “Imagine the Sex Pistols doing an album of ballads!” he says.

The artistic director of the hugely successful Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, comedian Eddie Bannon, has stepped down from his position.

Having spent 12 months in intense study and immersion in Connemara's Gaeltacht in an effort to speak as Gaeilge, Des Bishop is back on the road again. Drawing from his experiences, the star of the revolutionary RTE show In the Name of the Fada, comes to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar, with his live stand up show Unbearlable.

TOMMY TIERNAN would like to avoid controversy when performing his new show, provisionally titled Eh, during the Galway Arts Festival, but as he admits’ himself “no subject is out of bounds” and “God knows what will happen when I go on stage”.

NEW YORKER Eddie Brill had originally intended to study science and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology but after experiencing a family tragedy he discovered stand-up comedy.

MENTION SMOKIE and ‘Living Next Door To Alice’ immediately springs to mind. Co-written by English/Australian songwriting duo Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, it tells of a young man’s crush on the girl next door and how he is heartbroken when she leaves without explanation.