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Magnos Live opens its doors officially on April 30, and has expressed interest in touching the Castlebar and greater Mayo area as one of Ireland’s most intimate bar and music venues, where audience and artists alike get to meet and greet each other, and the gigs are delivered with top quality sound and stage productions. Magnos Live is located over Hogs Heaven Bar, in the Mayo Leisure Point Complex in Castlebar.

The Cat Laughs festival has opened the box office for ticket sales at the brewery on Parliament Street in the city.

LLOYD COLE first came to attention in the 1980s with his band The Commotions, with whom he enjoyed hit singles like ‘Brand New Friend’, ‘Lost Weekend’, and ‘Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?’. In the 1990s he disbanded the group and embarked on a successful solo career in America.

Eleanor Tiernan is a beautiful, smart, funny woman from Athlone, Co Roscommon, Ireland.

One of the Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival greats happens to be one of the comedy festival’s most affable comedians.

THE RISE of Irish comedy both nationally and internationally over the last 25 years has been truly inspirational. Galway has played an important part in the ascendancy of many Irish comedians by providing them with a platform to develop their craft. The city has also given many of them their first experience of a festival.

Remember the good old days when you could wander into a chipper without a care in the world or worries about high cholesterol, obesity, or high blood pressure and order one, or maybe even two batterburgers or spiceburgers and a large bag of chips?

OVER THE past two decades Londoner Mark Thomas has been a comedian, television presenter, writer, social-commentator, political activist, and self-confessed pain in the arse. He currently holds the Guinness World Record for most political demonstrations in 24 hours.

Shakespeare once wrote, “All the world’s a stage and all its men and women are merely players”, well this September the mighty county of Mayo will be the stage for the peerless Tommy Tiernan as the multi-award winning comic embarks on his ‘World Tour of Mayo 09'.

The life of a comedian is not all fun and games, in fact it can be down-right depressing, especially if you’re George Simmons, who is forced, through a terminal illness, to reassess his life, and connect with lost loves and human beings in general.