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The participants in this year’s All-Ireland Drama Festival have now a set performance date in focus following confirmation of the finalists’ running order at the official draw which took place on Monday afternoon.

“The death of Ray McBride, actor, dancer, and superb artist, will have been heard with sadness by all those who love Irish theatre and performance.”

DRUID THEATRE Company and Aerogen won Best Small Sponsorship Award at the recent Business to Arts awards, for their partnership on the DruidGregory Education and Community programme.

It was top against bottom last Friday night when Athlone Town entertained Wexford FC and as per the pre-match league table form stood firm with the hosts making it four wins in a row to stay clear at the top of the table.

DRUID’S ACCLAIMED production of The Cherry Orchard, starring Derbhle Crotty, will be accessible to audiences across the globe, when it is free streamed next week.

He was one of those people who was known to all by just the one name, Danno, and that was not even his actual name. He was born Francis Brendan Heaslip in Knocknacarra in 1938. Because he looked very like a boxing champion of the times, Danno O’Mahoney, he was given the nickname and it stuck. He was one of six siblings born to Joe Heaslip from Cork and Maureen O’Donoghue from Tuam; Minnie, Jimmy, Michael, Danno, Helen, and Phil. They lived in Lenaboy Gardens in Salthill,.

A VIRTUAL evening of opera, oratorio, chamber music, and festive favourites, in aid of Galway Simon Community, takes place this weekend in the company of Oranmore soprano Helen Hancock.

From next month until March 2021, more than 350 artists from Galway, and across Ireland, will take part in a seven month, reimagined, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture programme.

IT HAPPENED with Tom Murphy, it happened with JM Synge, it happened with Shakespeare. Now it is the turn of one of the major lights of the Irish Literary Revival - Lady Gregory - to get a Druid cycle.