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The Galway Council of Trade Unions will host a public debate on the Fiscal Compact Treaty tonight at 9pm in the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road.

Des Keogh, one of Ireland’s foremost actors and entertainers, presents his hugely successful, award-winning show The Love Hungry Farmer at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Wednesday, June 13 at 8pm.

THEATRE DIRECTOR Andrew Flynn is in for a busy few weeks in the lead up to Cúirt as he is directing two plays in the festival.

The Galway Arts Festival production of Enda Walsh’s Misterman and Druid’s staging of John B Keane’s Big Maggie were the main winners at the recent Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Rahugh Drama Group are busy rehearsing The Chastitute by John B Keane. The play will be staged on March 2, 3, 4, 9, and 10 in Rahugh Hall.

Since opening its doors in 1852, the luxury four star Hotel Meyrick which overlooks the historic Eyre Square at the heart of Galway City has welcomed more than six million visitors.

All eyes will be set on Athlone Little Theatre at the end of this month as the group embark on an exciting new production of Martin McDonagh’s classic The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Under the inspired direction of Paddy Martin, this fantastic, richly funny, brooding black comedy opens at the theatre from Sunday February 26 until Friday March 2.

Steeped in classic John B Keane humour, Many Young Men of Twenty is considered by many to be one of Keane’s finest, and while it deals with the dark topics of poverty, love, and emigration in Ireland in the sixties, all of which have a particular resonance in today’s climate, the play is also raucously funny.

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

AND SO another year winds down and, over a seasonal mince pie and mulled wine, we can reflect on the past 12 months of Galway play-going.