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The Temple House Festival in Sligo is shaping up to be the best fest in the west with an amazing line-up confirmed. More than 100 Irish and international acts will perform on four stages over three days at the award winning festival.

It was a celebration of a stellar first year for the Set Theatre and the entertainment on show for the night was a perfect snapshot of what the stunning venue has brought to Kilkenny over the last 12 months.

The south-east venue that’s been the talk of many musicians and music lovers over the last year, Set Theatre will celebrate its first birthday on Thursday September 16.

Bell X1 frontman Paul Noonan will play a special solo gig in Thomastown next Saturday, March 13, at the Red Door Theatre in the Bridgebrook Arms.

LONG BEFORE David O’Doherty ever took to the stage he was a devoted student of comedy arts. He would regularly go to see his brother Mark perform at The Comedy Cellar in Dublin and watched the international explosion of Irish comedy in the late 1990s.

What have the Oxfam Shop, Kilkenny Castle, Cleeres, MacDonagh Junction, St Canice’s Cathedral and the Castlecomer Estate Yard got in common?

Exciting local band Good Tiger, Galway-based So Cow and Dubliners Sing Song are the latest acts to be rounded up by Problems At The Pancake House Promotions for a gig in Cleere’s Theatre this Friday evening, August 1.

Around these parts we may be used to getting spoilt when it comes to exciting events planned over the summer months to keep us occupied but does it get much better than this in Kilkenny?

FRIENDSHIPS AND the sea dominate the songs of Lisa Hannigan. Her musical ambitions were brought to life by her mother, Freddie Mercury, and Maria Callas. She has emerged from the Damien Rice era strong and excited by the future. She could also prove a heroine to those who cherish the physical album.

The long awaited new theatre forBallina is moving closer and an information night on the theatre will take place on Tuesday December 2 at 6pm in the Ballina civic offices. Currently the project has received funding of €1.62 million from Ballina Town Council, €1.59 million from Mayo County Council and €1.2 million from the department of Arts, Sports and Heritage subject to the shortfall in the project being made up by local contributions. The shortfall that will have to be raised through local fund-raising is expected to be in the region of €500,000.