The sound of silver - Flirt FM to mark 25 years on air
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
On Monday September 28, at 12 noon, it will be exactly 25 years since Flirt FM, the award winning campus, community and alternative radio station, located at NUI Galway, went live on air.
Read more ...Album review: Pillow Queens
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE OPENING lines of opening track, 'Holy Show', present a picture of physical intimacy between two women, which is surprising for both its frankness, but also its tenderness.
Read more ...Maisie's story - ‘sincerity, humour, a celebration of a life’
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
"AGE CONFERS wisdom" goes the old adage, and there is a value in listening to the experiences of those who have lived through trying times in the past, which can in turn "enrich our understanding of the present".
Read more ...Chris Haze - live on stage
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, has announced his first socially distanced live show of 2020, taking place in the Róisín Dubh on Friday September 30.
Read more ...Gilgamesh is coming...
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
A BEARDED man with wild, unkempt hair, pulling a cart behind him, was spotted on the streets of Galway this week, the same man whose face adorns a mural that appeared on the corner of Bridge Street and Dominick Street.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
M: Laughter and peace of mind.
HOST releases new single - 'Borderline'
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
SYNTH-POP artist HOST will release her new song and video, ‘Borderline’ tomorrow, Friday September 25. The song was inspired by "the ugly, but totally normal stages of a breakup".
Read more ...Covid pandemic forces cancellation of 2020 Vodafone Comedy Carnival
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway, one of the major events of the Galway, and indeed Irish festival calendar, has had to be cancelled this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...The Devil All The Time - too much misery and too much dirt for 2020
Films Reviews Tue, Sep 22, 2020
THE DEVIL All The Time is adapted from a 2011 best seller which Netflix bought last year for distribution. It has released it for streaming but apparently has a big campaign ready to go when awards season kicks off.
Read more ...Laugh and dine at the Róisín Dubh
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
INEPT HOSPITAL radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury, and Sean Finnerty, who Jimmy Fallon has called "one of the funniest comedians to come out of Ireland”, will play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Galway musicians to host A Cup Of Music in aid of Galway Hospice
Tue, Sep 22, 2020
LEO MORAN of The Saw Doctors, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts, along with Tom Joyce and Carmel and Enda Dempsey will present a special show to raise funds for Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Savage; journey far more interesting than destination
Films Reviews Mon, Sep 21, 2020
My two previous experiences of New Zealand independent cinema, the excellent, hard-hitting, Once Were Warriors and the fun Hunt for the Wilderpeople, were ones I thoroughly enjoyed so when I saw the trailer for Sam Kelly's directorial debut, Savage, I had high hopes.
Read more ...Sean Keane - Live in Galway!
Sat, Sep 19, 2020
Sean Keane - Live in Galway
This Saturday night, you can watch Sean Keane Live in Galway from your living room, anywhere in the world!
Over The Edge September reading
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
THE WRITERS Ron Silliman, Molly Harris, and Fintan Coughlan will read from their works at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.
Read more ...Drag and dine at Club GASS
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
CLUB GASS and the Galway drag queen experience is back at the Róisín Dubh with the city's leading LGBT+ club night hosting a special drag show tomorrow, Friday September 18.
Read more ...Album review: Suzanne Vega
Music Reviews Thu, Sep 17, 2020
WITH COVID-19 resulting in live shows becoming very small affairs and restricting artists to touring within their own national borders, the live album has - as it was during its 1970s heyday - become again one of the few ways to experience an artist in concert.
Read more ...Have you been to the GIAF gallery?
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
THE GALWAY International Arts Festival Gallery - located in the An Post network of buildings just off William Street - is open until Saturday September 26.
Read more ...Culture Night 2020 - what are you going to?
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
Culture Night, Ireland's annual night of free arts, entertainments, and cultural events, to encourage the public to embrace, enjoy, and develop more interest in music, theatre, literature, dance, and the visual arts, returns tomorrow, Friday September 18.
Read more ...‘A glimpse into another age and another way of doing things’
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
IN HER day she was called “the greatest living Irishwoman” by no less than George Bernard Shaw, and six of the more than 40 plays written by that woman are to be performed by Druid Theatre Company throughout her native County Galway.
Read more ...Tuesday night is comedy night at the Róisín Dubh once again
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
TUESDAY NIGHTS have finally become funny again, now the Róisín Dubh’s Comedy KARLnival has returned, and headlining the next installment are Sally-Anne Hayward and John Colleary.
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