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Gerry Barnes in association with Decadent Theatre presents Martin McDonagh’s A Skull In Connemara, directed by Andrew Flynn.

Presented by Decadent Theatre Company A Skull in Connemara, fresh from its stint in the Gaiety Theatre, will run at the Mullingar Arts Centre from February 19-22.

Connemara has always attracted visitors from across the world. Its landscape alone provides breathtaking inspiration to painters, poets, photographers, and writers. Beginners and professional artists alike love to capture the unique light and shade of the landscape, including the magnificent Twelve Bens, as well as the awe-inspiring coastline around Killary Harbour and Clifden. Adventure-seekers travel west each year to hike or climb through the picturesque, yet challenging, landscape, run the quiet, never-ending roads, venture into the sea to surf or dive, relax on the placid lakes and spend the day fishing, and everything in between.

With a song catalogue featuring titles such as “Marrying the Sea”, “All Along the Western Seaboard”, and “We didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, singer/songwriter Declan O’Rourke’s long-time love affair with all things maritime will be very much in evidence in his first ever floating concert.

With a song catalogue featuring titles such as “Marrying the Sea”, “All Along the Western Seaboard”, and “We didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, singer/songwriter Declan O’Rourke’s long-time love affair with all things maritime will be very much in evidence in his first ever floating concert.

Newcomers West Coast United will square up to Tuam Celtic in the final of the u-12 Shield tomorrow evening at Eamonn Deacy Park, Galway (7.30pm).

DOWN-HOME, old-fashioned American folk music, but played with a contemporary twist and verve is the stuff of US trio Tumbling Bones.

A major strategy to significantly improve road safety for pedestrians and cyclists thereby encouraging more people to walk and cycle to work, college, and school, as well as boosting tourism and raising public awareness about its benefits, is currently being redrafted by Galway County Council with the view of seeking funding for a number of projects throughout the county.

I was interested in the following letter from Leonard McDonnell, about his father and grandfather. His grandfather, Petie Joe McDonnell, born in Leenane, worked as a coach builder with Kilroys of Newport, before joining the Irish Volunteers in 1914. He had good military instincts, and was well regarded by the Dublin IRA. In March 1921 he was appointed OC Western Connemara Brigade. Pádraic Ó Máille served under him. While on the run he married Matilda (Tilly) Kilroy. They had eight children. He took the anti Treaty side during the Civil War. During World War II he served as a captain in the Irish Army. Afterwards he worked in the insurance business in Galway, and died in the city in 1967.

Athlone Little Theatre’s latest play The Lonesome West opens this Sunday February 24 and runs until Saturday March 2 next.