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FOLLOWING LAST year’s resounding success, the Galway Theatre Festival returns from October 20 to 24. The festival is now accepting submissions of unproduced scripts, not exceeding 90 minutes in length, for a series of rehearsed readings. Applicants are requested to include a brief account of their writing and theatre experience with their submissions.

Firstly I’m far from an economist, I’m not even an amateur economist, dabbling in the social science in school and third level made sure that my economic genius would not see the light of day in the business or academic world. But even I can still recognise that when 46 highly qualified academics sign an article in a newspaper, it might be worth having a look at what they are saying.

ALAN KELLY, one of Ireland’s most imaginative traditional musicians, will launch his new album After The Morning, with a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 9pm.

Free food, giveaways, entertainment, and parking on Sunday

Dublin band Codes are set to play support to The Flaws at Castlebar’s brand new music night at Bar Ritz this October. Finbar Hoban is asking you to pick a new name for the show at Bar Ritz on Saturday October 17th, those who feel they have the best name of the new show can e-mail suggestions with your name and details to [email protected] by Wednesday September 30. The winner will receive €100 in cash for their efforts.

AMONG THE many attractions at the upcoming Baboró festival is There’s A Snail In The Garden, Dermot Carmody and Morgan C Jones’ hilarious live music and comedy show for children.

Sightsavers Ireland is calling on Galway primary school children to paint ‘The sight they would most like to see’ for the first Sightsavers Ireland Junior Painter of the Year Awards.

ONE OF the more intriguing shows at this year’s Baboró festival for children is The Musician from Northern Ireland’s Cahoots Theatre Company.

FROM DEEP galactic space, the Warlords of Pez are cybernetically advanced, sonically aggressive space aliens, whose music fuses deepspace death metal, low-light sex cabaret, and New Age electric bongo madness.

A special information meeting for stay-at-home fathers who find themselves more involved with raising their families will be held in Galway on November 17.