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“I LIKE writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It’s therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints,” so said film maker, writer, actor, and playwright Woody Allen in a 2005 interview.

Galway’s House Hotel as been named as one of the best places to sleep by The New York Times newspaper, in a recent travel column by journalist Matt Gross.

ARGUABLY THE most toured production in Irish theatre history, Pan Pan Theatre’s Oedipus Loves You is a daring take on the enduring myth of Oedipus.

Week III

The worldwide economic downturn and rising cost of fuel hit Delta Airlines which is reporting losses of $1.04 billion for its second quarter.

“THERE ARE only three white blues singers, and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.” This praise for the American singer and guitarist came from no less a songwriter than Richard Thompson.

ARE YOU a hoarder or collector? Do you wonder about the stories behind an old photograph, scrap of paper, or discarded letter that you might have come across?

Washington comes to NUI Galway on Thursday October 30, when the University hosts a US Presidential Election Debate featuring senior representatives of the Democrat and Republican parties. Just four days before the closely contested election, Grant Lally, national co-chairman of the Irish American Republicans, will go head-to-head in a debate with Bruce Morrison, former US Connecticut Congressman and author of the Morrison Visa Program.

THE OPENING acts of this year’s Galway Jazz Festival will be pianist Kenny Werner, Scandinavia’s The Thing, and Japanese avant-garde musician Otomo Yoshihide.

SAN FRANCISCO’S Chanticleer, “the world’s reigning male chorus,” according to the New Yorker, will make their debut Galway appearance in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday July 4 at 8pm.