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DRAMA AT INISH a comedy by Lennox Robinson will be performed as Gaeilge by Bualagh Bos! Oranmore Music & Drama Group from March 10 to 12 in Route 66 (Keanes), Oranmore.

Following their popular staging of Monty Python’s Life of Brian before Christmas, Dreamstuff Youth Theatre are getting ready for itheir busiest production year ever in 2009.

GALWAY THEATREGOERS are in for a rare treat next week when Argentinean company La Compania bring their award-winning production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days to the Town Hall for one night only on Friday September 25.

One of the most unusual strategies ever used by a young wife to keep a faltering marriage together was employed by Mrs W B Yeats on their honeymoon.

Fáilte Ireland officially launched its newly-revitalised Yeats Passport Trail — which takes in three sites in south Galway — at an event at Sligo City Hall this week. The event coincided with the 70th anniversary of the death of William Butler Yeats on January 28 1939. The trail was officially launched by another Nobel laureate, the renowned poet Seamus Heaney.

OSCAR WILDE’S comic masterpiece, The Importance Of Being Earnest, will be performed by The Seamas O’Kelly Players in the Temperance Hall, Loughrea, today, Saturday, and Sunday at 8.30pm.

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp's Last Tape returns to the Town Hall Theatre Studio by popular demand following a sell-out run last year. The acclaimed production will be performed from Tuesday March 3 to Saturday March 7 at 8.30pm and on Friday March 6 in a special late evening performance at 10.30pm.

Conor Casby’s nude portraits of Brian Cowen, which have been causing a sensation these last few days, reminded me of a story I once heard about Brendan Behan.

“No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.”

The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble, a radio play by Galway author and singer Julian Gough, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 2.15pm.