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Tar - icy cold and smoking hot

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University of Galway Maree advance to cup semi-finals

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Joe-Junior Mvuezolo scored a season-high 33 points as University of Galway Maree progressed to the InsureMyHouse.ie Pat Duffy National Cup semi-finals with a 92-77 win over Belfast Star on Saturday evening at Calasanctius College.

‘Books are an empathy machine. They bring people together’

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AS THE Covid pandemic begins to wane, as restrictions ease, and people can gather for arts and cultural events once more, how appropriate it is that Cúirt 2022 should be themed around meetings and interactions.

The west of Ireland lacks civilisation – But it has poetry

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‘The capital, Galway, is a terrible place. It has of course St Nicholas, one of the few remaining preReformation churches; the frontispiece of a Renaissance town house erected as a gateway to the public park; and a medieval fortified house about which they tell the well-known story of the Lynch who hanged his own son when the sheriff wasn't available. At least once a year while I was director of the Abbey theatre we got a play on that. From Miss Edgeworth's account of her travels to Galway it would appear that as a theme for tragedy it was popular a hundred years ago. But even before that I had a lively hatred of the town....'

A day in the life - Bedsit at GIAF 21

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“I'M UP and about and living again without realising that that’s what I’m doing.” So says a woman Galway will meet during the 2021 Galway International Arts Festival.

Arts bureaucrats urging writers to put themselves up for sale?

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In a book called Das Kapital, first published 154 years ago, Karl Marx predicted capitalism would, in time, transform everything into a saleable commodity.

Cúirt 2021 - What are you going to see?

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THE CÚIRT International Festival of Literature has begun and runs until Sunday. This year, things are a little different due to Covid-19 restrictions, so audiences are encouraged to watch at home and be part of the online festival community.

‘The desire of Democrats to deny Trump a second term animates them above all’

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He may be rank alongside James Buchanan and Herbert Hoover as the worst ever president of the United States; his country has the highest levels of Covid-19 cases (+6 million) and deaths (+183,000 - higher than the number of US soldiers killed in Vietnam), which has led to a severe spike in unemployment levels.

Policing in a time of Trump and a nation divided

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THINK OF the word sheriff and you think of the hat and the badge; Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane in The Dukes of Hazzard; Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven; and Ed Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men.

Joker - a troubling depiction of Batman's arch enemy

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JOKER, ALSO known as Arthur Fleck, grew up the victim of abuse, and struggles with a type of Tourettes which results in his erupting in involuntary laugher when he is unhappy or uncomfortable.

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