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The Boy Explorer is a 15ft high, eight-year-old, boy who is on a quest to walk across Ireland asking children for brilliant ideas on how to make Ireland a better place to live.

‘ALIEN POP’ and avant garde electronica will be the order of the day when electro-duo Nanu Nanu take to the stage of An Taibhdhearc for the Spirit of Voice festival.

Leading scholars of Irish drama will gather in Galway this week for the Irish Society for Theatre Research annual conference.

Leading scholars of Irish drama will gather in Galway this week for the Irish Society for Theatre Research annual conference.

AS THE Galway Arts Festival fast approaches, it is all systems go at Macnas as the company gears up for this year’s parade, entitled This Thunderous Heart, which will take to the city streets on Sunday July 22.

Shauna Coffey, a native of Athlone and a senior student of the Shannon Dance Academy, was selected to dance with Macnas for the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin.

‘The wearing of the green’ is a traditional way to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, but Blue Teapot Theatre Company will be taking a different approach to ‘being green’ for Saturday’s parade.

The provision of arts grants to a wide selection of the city’s arts groups was announced at Monday evening’s Galway City Council meeting.

An art auction, featuring works by many leading local and national artists, takes place in The Rowing Club, Woodquay, tomorrow at 8.30pm, to raise funds for The Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust,

THE GALWAY University Hospitals Arts Trust will hold a charity auction in the Rowing Club on Friday October 21 to raise funds for its arts programme.