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PRINT DESIGN artist Eimearjean McCormack is currently displaying a collection of her works in the Ard Bia restaurant at Nimmo’s.

The need to defend and support the arts in a climate of economic devastation, a political ideology of savage cuts to front line services, and ‘socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor’ has never been more pressing.

HAVE YOU ever been to a comedy gig and thought ‘I could do that’? Well, now is your chance with a new competition from The King’s Head in association with Bulmers.

After wowing fans since reforming, Frankie Gavin and De Dannan are coming to Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, for what promises to be a super show on Tuesday December 28. For many years traditional super group De Dannan were the forerunners in the Irish traditional music world, but after 33 years, 14 albums, and a number of changes in the line up, the group disbanded in 2003. In 2009 original founding member and world famous fiddle player Frankie Gavin unleashed a new De Dannan which features local man Eric Cunningham on percussion, flutes, and whistles. Tickets for the show cost €18 and doors are at 9.30pm in one of the most storied venues in the west.

MICK LALLY’s life and work will be remembered and celebrated this Sunday from 5pm when Sean Tyrrell, Johnny Mulhearn, Wally Page, Johnny Moynihan, Tony Small, Lena Ullman, Eugene Lambe, Terry Smith, and Mary Staunton take to the stage for Music and Song Tribute to Mick Lally in Monroe’s Live.

If Galway is to keep its reputation as a city which supports the arts, it must maintain the current level of arts funding and not allow it to drop in December’s budget.

The third Galway Theatre Festival returns from October 25 to 31 and this year’s programme will be officially launched in Massimo, Sea Road, on Monday September 20 at 6pm.

Galway lunchtime theatre makes a welcome returns to its natural home of The King’s Head, High Street. this month, after a few years’ hiatus with Brendan Murray, ex-director of Punchbag and Ros na Rún, taking the creative reins.

SIR PETER Hall, the founding director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the director of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain is coming to Galway.

THE ENDELLION String Quartet are so good that The Daily Telegraph has described them as being capable of “setting the audience ablaze”.