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The Meridian Theatre Company presents a double bill of Irish plays by emerging writers in the Roscommon Arts Centre on Wednesday 11 February, Love, Peace and Robbery and Thailand: What’s Love Got To Do With It?.

A ‘golden circle’ of Ireland’s mega-rich step in, at no cost to them, and borrow money from Anglo-Irish to prop up the bank’s share price? It surely wouldn’t happen in a banana republic! But let’s not insult the bananas! And the Taoiseach, who was the Minister for Finance at the time, tells us he knew nothing of the illegal operation even though he has admitted he knew there was a problem with Sean Quinn’s share-holding? Does he think we are all bananas? And, all the time this fiasco is ruining our international credibility when we need it most to borrow from all and sundry just to keep the country above water. Even in Oscar week that’s got to have the makings of a ‘Best Film’ plot!

Given the fact that everyone is feeling the pressure of the worldwide recession in some form or another, a movie about a New York twenty-something who loves to shop is perhaps a little distasteful.

‘MULTICULTURAL’ HAS been turned into a dirty word by those of a right wing persuasion who would have us believe it represents a threat to or the ‘ghettoisation’ of society.

THE TOWN Hall’s autumn season gets underway in earnest next week with a high-profile production of Martin McDonagh’s brilliantly visceral comedy of sibling rivalry, The Lonesome West.

GALWAY BASED actor, poet, and songwriter Pete Mullineaux will teach an acting class in the Galway Arts Centre, starting Wednesday September 16.

FREGOLI THEATRE Company are in Nuns Island theatre from tonight to Saturday with New Works, a trilogy of short plays from upcoming Galway-based writers.

Fancy being in a soap rather than just watching it? Have the cúpla focail and a burning ambition to act? Well, now’s your chance as Ros na Rún, one of Ireland’s most popular drama series, is now on the look out for talented gaeilgeoirs to join the cast for the upcoming 14th season.

ONE OF the most successful comedy film franchises during the 1980s was Police Academy. In 1984 Messrs Mahoney, Hightower, Tackleberry and Jones were a group of misfits who unwittingly found themselves recruited as trainee US police officers.