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Garry Hynes, the internationally acclaimed theatre director and Druid co-founder, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from UCD.

A specially commissioned window seat in memory of the late, very great Mick Lally, was unveiled at the Druid Lane Theatre yesterday evening.

The final curtain fell on Druid’s production of Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie, concluding a phenomenal 22 weeks of touring, and resulting in critical acclaim for the play and Garry Hynes.

Galway’s Druid Theatre presented their acclaimed production of Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie at the Lincoln Theatre, New York on Tuesday. The play will run till the end of the month.

BOYZONE SINGER and former Coronation Street star Keith Duffy will be among the cast members for Druid’s next big production - John B Keane’s Big Maggie.

The company started in Boston last February when five feet of snow prevented some of the audience from even reaching the theatre. Since then they’ve had temperatures soar to 45 degrees, clocked up 20,000 miles and next week they’re looking forward to returning home with Druid’s production of The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh.

FRESH FROM a hugely successful tour of the United States, Druid’s smash-hit staging of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan makes a welcome return to the Town Hall for three nights only.

The USA is continuing its love affair with Druid Theatre by giving standing ovations and rave reviews to the Galway company’s productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan and Penelope.

Donncha O’Connell, lecturer in law at NUI Galway and human rights campaigner, has announced his candidacy in the forthcoming Seanad election on the NUI panel. Mr O’Connell, who comes from a well-known family in Swinford and whose mother, Bríd, is one of the Hughes of Westport, is one of 27 candidates seeking election to one of the three seats on the panel for which voting commences by postal ballot between March 21 and April 27.

Druid will fly the flag for Irish theatre in the US for St Patrick’s Day when the company presents Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan in Chicago and Enda Walsh’s Penelope in Washington DC.