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The thirtieth anniversary showing of a seminal TV documentary, live music and explaining a unique flag display will all form part of this month’s evening entertainments at Galway City Museum on Thursday, September 24.

University of Galway has held its third annual Siobhán McKenna scholarship and lecture series. This event honours the legacy of Siobhán McKenna, the Belfast-born actress who became a world-renowned actress of stage and screen, starring in Dr Zhivago, King of Kings and Of Human Bondage.

The County Galway troop’s performance of Chapatti, by Christian O’Reilly, stole the show at the All-Ireland Confined Drama Finals, winning Glenamaddy the top gong for the first time in 60 years of performing.

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Sunday night movies begin at 8pm, Monday's at 7.30pm.

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Roofman is a familiar story, following well-meaning, charismatic heroes who resort to ill-judged, desperate, decision making.

I Hope We Can Still Be Friends is the innocent-sounding title for a new, revenge thriller filmed around Galway to be premiered tonight, Thursday, July 10.

On this day, June 26, one hundred years ago, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary bought Spires House in Shantalla. Three of the sisters in the order had come to UCG the previous year to study for a degree and while they were in Galway, Mother Stanislaus looked for a suitable premises for a house of studies for them and finally purchased this premises. The house dates from the 1840s and got its name from the two unusual spires you can see on the roof. The building was used by the sisters as a hostel for secular students as well as their own nuns and these nuns became known locally as ‘The Spires Nuns’.