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FRESH FROM an acclaimed run at the Dublin Theatre festival, Corn Exchange - one of Ireland’s most innovative theatre companies - come to the Town Hall next week with their bold reworking of Tennessee Williams’ 1950s’ classic, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

Galway Leaving Cert students celebrated yesterday with most of the local secondary schools emerging with “outstanding results”.

THE IRISH Times critic John Kenny will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday October 30 at 6.30pm.

When Christy Moore sings his well known song, “Viva la Quinta Brigada”, in honour of those who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War one of his sardonic verses includes the lines:

CHARLIE PARR is, for some, the alternative Seasick Steve, the man for whom Steve is, in a sense, making the paths straight.

After the brilliant Hallowe’en Fancy Dress Party with Grand Pocket Orchestra, the alternative music continues next Saturday night with the return of the hugely successful Finbar Hoban Presents… series, Castlebar’s only alternative boutique music event at Bar Ritz (Mulroys Bar).

Jarlath Regan, the new face of RTÉ’s The Panel and the fastest rising star of Irish comedy, plays The Comedy Club at Cuba* tomorrow. The Irish Times has called him a “comic genius”. Support is from Bob Hennigan and Marty D. Gerry Mallon is the MC. Tickets are available in advance at Bar 903, The Cellar Bar, and at the door which opens at 8.30pm.

Barnstorm Theatre Company’s Spring production Boy with a Suitcase by Mike Kenny comes to the Watergate Theatre for one week only.

At Shannon Airport five people took on the might of the US military – and put a Navy war-plane out of action. Astonishingly, they convinced a jury that to do so was not a crime.

AMONG THE many notable events being staged in Galway to mark the Volvo Ocean Race, one of the highlights is Druid’s revival of their much-lauded Playboy Of The Western World at the Town Hall for five nights only, from June 2 to 6.