Brendan Bowyer - playing the hits at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE HUCKLEBUCK’ may have been written and first performed by r’n’b saxophonist Paul Williams, but in Ireland that song is unquestionably owned by Brendan Bowyer.

The Superior Inferior @ Factory

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE SUPERIOR Inferior, aka Belfast DJ and producer Graeme Morrison, makes his Galway debut in Factory this Saturday night.

PLAY @ The Cellar

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

HAVE YOU a song to sing? Are you a songwriter, guitarist, etc, and want to share your music but have no opportunity to get on stage?

Coyote Factor starts next week

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE FIRST round of heats for Coyote Factor 7 starts on Thursday October 23 in Coyotes Late Bar, Shop Street, with 12 contestants taking part.

Why Not? film festival - Let the adventure begin!

Wed, Oct 15, 2014

GET READY to sail to the Arctic, stand atop rugged mountainous peaks and descend with adventurers deep in the heart of vast canyons, when the Why Not? Adventure Film Festival comes to Galway.

Aindrias de Staic - The Man From Moogaga

Wed, Oct 15, 2014

THERE WAS The Man From UNCLE, the man from Del Monte, The Man From Laramie, and ‘The Man From God Knows Where’, but Aindrias de Staic is The Man From Moogaga.

Theatre review: Trickster in the Black Box

Theatre Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

THERE WAS a time, and not so long ago, when disability arts was regarded as little more than a kind of occupational therapy, like basket-weaving, and viewed with polite, yet condescending indulgence.

Cinema review: Gold

Films Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

IFTA AWARD winning director Niall Heery’s latest film Gold is a wonderfully well worked comedy-drama set in rural Ireland.

Play by Love/Hate creator for the Linenhall

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

A play from the creator and writer of crime drama smash hit Love/Hate is coming to the Linenhall this month.

Soaring choral concert for Louisburgh

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

The Mayo Male Voice Choir is joining forces with mezzo soprano Annemarie Gibbons to perform a special concert in the Derrylahan, Louisburgh, tonight at 8.30 pm.

Ms Gibbons is internationally acclaimed for her operatic performances and will return to her native Louisburgh to perform with the choir and raise funds for the local Order of Malta.

So Cow - the long road to The Long Con

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

YOUR TWENTIES are not necessarily the best years of your life, certainly not the years between 25 and 29. In a city, your 20s become an extended adolescence, but after the parties and the wildness is over, you reach a crossroads of ‘Thirty is on the horizon - what the hell am I going to do with my life?’

Win tickets to stage show of The Gruffalo

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

TALL STORIES, the musical stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler award winning picture book, The Gruffalo, is coming to Galway.

Shappi Khorsandi - laughing at an unconventional life

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.

ROCKtoberfest - a weekend of music at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

ROCKTOBERFEST, GALWAY’S new ‘indoor music festival’ will see Monroe’s Live play host to 22 up-and-coming Irish bands, across a wide range of genres, starting today and running throughout the weekend.

TULCA to go Neutral for 2014

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

NEUTRALITY IS a much discussed, often thorny political and historical subject in Ireland, but being ‘neutral’ and the ideas it implies is the subject of TULCA 2014.

Public lecture on Oscar Wilde’s father

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

SIR WILLIAM WILDE, the father of Oscar Wilde, will be the subject of a public lecture in the Galway City Museum next week.

Films from opposite ends of the Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

MOHAMAD MALAS’S first film in almost a decade and a French film about an actor coming out of retirement will be screened in Galway this weekend.

The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

SCOTTISH PUPPETEER and ‘object-theatre’ artist Shona Reppe makes her fifth visit to Baboró with a show that promises to be a festival highlight, The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean.

Acts announced for Comedy Club 4 Kids

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

WHY SHOULD adults have all the fun? Why can’t the children get in on the laughs as well? They can - as long as they are over the age of six - at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.