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Ireland’s longest running arts festival, the Clifden Community Arts Festival, begins today, and this year’s programme boasts a line up that includes Mary Coughlan, Mairtín O’Connor, Sharon Shannon, and novelist Dermot Bolger.

Mayo man Donncha O’Connell is the newly-appointed head of the School of Law at NUI Galway.

Mayo man Donncha O’Connell is the newly-appointed head of the School of Law at NUI Galway.

DRUID THEATRE Company is coming back to the Town Hall Theatre next week to present a new staging of it’s DruidMurphy event.

The former director general of RTÉ, Cathal Goan, has been appointed as chair of the board of Druid Theatre Company, taking over from the long serving Seamus O’Grady.

Athlone’s Literary Festival, which is now in its 9th year, takes place from October 4-7. This year’s festival offers opportunities for budding writers to hone their craft in two unique workshops and a masterclass: aA workshop in creative writing with author Anne Skelly; and a workshop in playwriting with Thomas Conway, literary manager of Druid Theatre. Both workshops will attract great interest at this year’s festival. The festival also includes a poetry masterclass with Noel Monahan.

Druid Theatre Company’s next major production and touring event, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, is just one month away, and will premiere in London in May.

Uachtaráin na hÉireann Michael D Higgins has led the tributes being paid to Mike Diskin, describing him as a “dear friend” whose death was a “huge loss to all those who worked in the arts, culture, theatre and performance on this island”.

MISTERMAN, THE powerful and much-acclaimed drama, written by Enda Walsh, and featuring a tour-de-force performance from Cillian Murphy has been nominated for four Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Galway’s Druid Theatre Company has received three nominations in this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards.