Show Me The Funny - return of the New Year laughs

Thu, Jan 07, 2016

THE JANUARY blues will be banished with laughter when Show Me The Funny, and annual competition to find Ireland's next emerging comedy star, returns to The Kings Head on Monday January 11.

Brendan Grace celebrates forty-three years of comedy

Tue, Dec 29, 2015

The greatest family comedian of our generation has spent 43 years in the comedy business and most of this time at the very top of his profession.

Brendan Grace’s latest show features the best and most requested pieces from his vast repertoire over the last 43 years. His sense of timing and ability to read an audience is without equal. A brilliant character actor, his ‘Bottler’ character is legendary and his interpretation of the Irish wedding will forever remain a masterpiece.

Brendan Grace - New Year Galway shows

Thu, Dec 17, 2015

MORE THAN 40 years in the business, and Brendan Grace, one of Ireland's favourite comedians, is still going strong and he will kick off 2016 with two shows in Galway.

Reginald D Hunter - back in Galway in 2016

Tue, Dec 15, 2015

PROVOCATIVE, CONTROVERSIAL, insightful, challenging, and blisteringly funny, Reginald D Hunter is coming back to Galway next year with his new show, The Aluminum Negro.

Karl Spain's Róisín Dubh Comedy Xmas party

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

A CHRISTMAS Karl, the Róisín Dubh Comedy's Christmas party, hosted by Limerick comedian Karl Spain, is set to get the festive season off to an hilarious and uproarious start, this Sunday from 8pm.

Neil Delamere - Galway bound in 2016

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

CTRL+ALT+DELAMERE, the new show by one of Ireland's best loved comedians, Neil Delamere, comes to Galway city and county for two performances in 2016.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Dec 10, 2015

FORMER MMA fighter Tom 'The Bear' O’Mahony and Alan Hurley perform a double headline of stand-up at the final Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh of 2015, tomorrow at 8.30pm.

Totally Wired @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Dec 03, 2015

TOTALLY WIRED are best known from their Republic of Telly and YouTube hit song 'Gay Best Friend', and for being Ireland’s oldest and least successful boy band.

Abie Philbin Bowman @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

THE BRILLIANT Abie Philbin Bowman, whose comedy goes "way beyond superficial satire" to be "absorbing, challenging and highly entertaining", by Time Out, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Win tickets to Jimmy Carr in Leisureland

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

JIMMY CARR, the comedian and host of Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats, brings his new stand-up show Funny Business to Leisureland, Salthill, on Saturday December 19 at 8pm.

Youtube's Farmer Michael - live

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

STEVO TIMOTHY, the star of the Farmer Michael Youtube sketches, headlines Ireland's Smallest Comedy Club in the Dew Drop Inn, tonight at 9pm. The club runs every Thursday and is hosted by local comics Johnny Graham and Bob Hennigan. Admission is €4 and includes free pizza.

Patrick McDonnell to headline Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 19, 2015

AS FATHER Ted's Eoin McLove he delivered such immortal lines as "Go away! I don't want to catch the menopause!" Now man who played him, comedian Patrick McDonnell, is coming to the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh.

Des Bishop's Grey Matters tour is Galway bound

Wed, Nov 18, 2015

DES BISHOP is staring middle-age in the face, so does he go into denial or get hit hard by a serious dose of the male menopause and a mid-life crisis? No, as a great comedian, he sees in it instead the potential for comedy.

Father Ted star headlines Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 12, 2015

JOE ROONEY, who has achieved near legendary status for his roles in Father Ted, Killinascully, Spooky Stakeout, RiRa, and BBC's Roy, plays the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh this Friday, November 13.

Mick Foley - tickets available for wrestlers's Monday show

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

MICK FOLEY comes to the Róisín Dubh next week to perform his one-man spoken word show, Tales From Wrestling Past. The Tuesday November 10 show is sold out, but tickets are still available for the Monday 9 performance.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 05, 2015

FOLLOWING THE success of its four night run at the recent Vodafone Comedy Carnival, the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh continues on Friday November 6 at 8.30pm with a headline set from Danny O’ Brien.

Spiegeltent - Galway's stylish laughter centre

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

AT THE centre of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway, and located in the centre of the city, the Spiegeltent ‘Jean Louis’ in Eyre Square, promises to be a centre of laughter, hosting many of the festival's flagship events.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

COMEDIAN NEIL Hickey, "one of the most exciting newcomers to the Irish scene," according to the Irish Independent, headlines the next installment of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh in the upstairs bar of the Dominick Street venue, tomorrow night.

Comedy Carnival - some tickets still available

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

THERE IS less than a week to go to opening night of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway, and with ticket sales surging 20 per cent ahead of last year, it is no wonder Dylan Moran, Nina Conti, Jason Manford, Ardal O'Hanlon, and Stewart Lee have sold out already.

Quirky Acts for the comedy carnival

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

A WOMAN only 3’ 6” tall, who calls herself, the Ferrari of comedy, "low to the ground and kinda racy"; a man known as the 'Whisky Comedian'; and The Two Johns, a duo of the extraordinary Terry Alderton and musician Johnny Spurling - Galway better get ready for them all.

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