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BRAND SPANKING New, the comedy night in the Róisín Dubh celebrating new and rising Irish comedy returns with RTE New Comedy Award acts.

The appropriately-named Box of Frogs is to play in the Mullingar Arts Centre at the end of this month as part of a newly launched national campaign to reduce the stigma around discussing mental health.

At every good-times gathering of joke-telling friends, invariably there is always a joke told that belongs to this legend of comedy - a priceless one-liner, or one of his bizarre stories told in a Scottish accent. But no one can do it like ‘The Big Yin’ himself, Billy Connolly, who is finally coming to Castlebar and will take to the stage in the Royal Theatre on Tuesday April 30. Tickets are on sale right now and are priced at €54.25 and €49.25.

At every good-times gathering of joke-telling friends, invariably there is always a joke told that belongs to this legend of comedy - a priceless one-liner, or one of his bizarre stories told in a Scottish accent. But no one can do it like ‘The Big Yin’ himself, Billy Connolly, who is finally coming to Castlebar and will take to the stage in the Royal Theatre on Tuesday April 30. Tickets are on sale right now and are priced at €54.25 and €49.25.

THE GLAMOUR, style, and decadence from Weimar-era Berlin will be on show in Kelly’s Bar with a night of burlesque and cabaret from The Dirty Circus.

The Laughing Stock Comedy Club are as proud as punch to welcome arguably the best comedian in the world right now to Athlone this April.

The launch of the programme for the second Galway Food Festival took place on Monday March 11 upstairs at McCambridge’s. The lovely Máirín Uí Chomáin, in a particularly elegant outfit and a covetable pair of shiny, fire-engine-red shoes, did the honours beautifully. As an author, the chairperson of Irish Food Writers Guild, and a true Connemara woman, she was perfect for the job. JP McMahon, festival chairperson, also spoke at the launch, in particular speaking warmly of the late lamented Gerry Galvin, who had launched the festival last year. A man who will be sadly missed.

A Romanian teenager who gave a false name but his correct address after being caught driving a car without insurance was told “he can tell that to Borat or whoever” in the District Court this week (February 27).

Kevin Pigott from Athlone has been recruited by Tullamore DEW along with four other new local brand ambassadors to promote the whiskey in the US market.

Joe Rooney talks to Claire O’Brien about charity,