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Spanning international headliners, Irish comedy greats, and the best emerging talent on the circuit, tickets are on sale now for 60 shows across 14 venues over seven days and nights from October 20 to 26.

Galway take on Limerick this weekend in one of the biggest days in the Irish sporting calendar.

Druid Theatre Company is reviving Dion Boucicault’s classic play, The Shaughraun, for this year’s Arts Festival. Its first Galway performance, in December 1876, followed sold-out runs on Broadway and in London’s West End. Though set in rural Sligo, The Shaughraun became associated with Galway, and specifically with Claddagh.

Applegreen is to create up to 450 new jobs following an agreement that will see the Irish company open a series of Popeyes® chicken restaurants at its roadside locations.

The University of Galway Sports Arena will be the stage for one of the standout fixtures of the National League Men’s Division 1 in the early season this Saturday evening, as Maigh Cuilinn welcome fellow unbeaten side Tolka Rovers in what promises to be an entertaining encounter.

Sonic geographer Francis Heery’s latest album is a dark and moody aural survey of a Galway city suburb.

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

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Parenting small children can be challenging at the best of times. There are hundreds of books out there listing things for parents to do, but what happens when you’re in the real world, and things don’t go as planned?