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Mojofest, the longest running international smartphone content creators festival, returns to Galway. Glen Mulcahy, the director of Mojofest has announced that the festival will return to the Bailey Allen Hall in NUI Galway from 6th-8th June this year. Speaking at the launch he said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to bring the conference back to Galway again. Having lived in Galway for 15 years myself I know what a wonderful, vibrant and creative community there is here and feedback from the delegates last year was fantastic. It simply would not have been possible to do this without the support and partnership of NUI Galway”

TOM STADE is "so cool he could well be the answer to global warming," according to The Scotsman, who also called him "gloriously funny”, as Galway will see when he plays the Róisín Dubh this weekend.

The Galway Theatre Festival commences next week and among the highlights is Laurence Clark’s comic show, An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting. It comes here, at the behest of NoRopes Theatre Company, for three performances at NUIG’s O’Donoghue Centre from May 8 to 11.

Emma Willis, from The Young Offenders, and Ciara O’Callaghan, from Fair City, co-star in Gary Duggan’s potent new play, Spotless, which comes to the Town Hall, for one performance only, on Thursday May 2.

FOLLOWING THE release of their very fine new album, The Hare's Lament, folk/trad duo Ye Vagabonds - Carlow brothers Brían and Diarmuid MacGloinn - return to the Róisín Dubh.

THE COMEDY KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh celebrates its first birthday next week, and plans to do so in style with a headline set from the exuberantly silly, and utterly surreal, prop comic Spencer Jones.

New York-based Salthill native Jack Stenson has been honoured as one of the top 40 Irish/Irish American leaders currently living in the USA.

“LIFE IS difficult, but it’s incredible to be awake for it, to be present for it, both the good and the bad stuff.” So declares John Grant, who has known plenty of life’s slings and arrows. Yet he has come through them all to arrive at a place of self-acceptance, and to see his words and music resonate deeply with audiences across the world.

EMBARRASSING SEXUAL revelations, rural innocence, cocky insults, and slick banter - it can only be Geordie comic John Fothergill who headlines the Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh next week.

THEY ARE not yet finished college. Not all the members are yet in their twenties. They have only released a few singles and an EP, but Valeras are deservedly regarded as one of Britain's most exciting indie-guitar based bands.