Over The Edge open-mic

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

THE 2011 Over The Edge Summer Open-mic, part of the Westside Arts Festival, takes place at the Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Tuesday at 6.30pm.

Galway to feature in new film Seven Songs For Amy

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

GALWAY WILL be one of the main locations for shooting the film, Seven Songs For Amy, which will be directed by BAFTA nominee Konrad Begg, and feature Patrick Bergin and Galway’s Aindrias de Staic.

Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2011

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

THE 2011 Galway Film Fleadh concluded on Sunday with the touching and beautiful film Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, while the Fleadh awards were also announced.

Win tickets to new Harry Potter film @ Omniplex

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

HARRY POTTER and the Deathly Hallows: Part II sees the young wizard take on the might of Voldemort in the showdown between good and evil.

Feel good by seeing comic Glenn Wool

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

“SEEING GLENN Wool perform should be made compulsory for the melancholy. There’s no way you won’t feel a bit better about the world afterwards.”

Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

LUNCHTIME LAUGHS are the order of the day at Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft in the Ruby Room in The King’s Head throughout the Galway Arts Festival.

Gleeson and co hit red carpet for The Guard premiere

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

The red carpet was well and truly rolled out and trodden at the Eye Cinema recently for the Irish premiere of The Guard with stars such as Brendan Gleeson, Pat Shortt, Liam Cunningham, and Danny O’Donoghue from The Script having a ball and chatting the night away during the glitzy after-show party in The g Hotel.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Jul 14, 2011

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.

Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. All comedians are welcome. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.

Don’t panic - Blondie are back

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

SOME PEOPLE are just cool. They ooze a sense of calmness, experience, and ability to take life in their stride.

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s extraordinary political journey

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

SHE WAS the firebrand young MP from County Tyrone whose electrifying presence on the stage of Northern Irish politics in the late 1960s catapulted her to the forefront of the Civil Rights movement.

Who Needs Enemies? returns next week

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

FRESH FROM a Buddhist retreat in the Himalayas, Eoin Hancock returns to Galway to draw a line in the sand, and escape from his self-indulgent lifestyle and party animal friends.

Cillian Murphy on Misterman’s ‘amazing immersive experience’

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

Playwright Enda Walsh’s Misterman is one of the hottest tickets at this year’s Galway Arts Festival due in no small measure to the fact it sees Cillian Murphy take a rare break from his film career to ‘tread the boards’ again.

Enter the world of Silent

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

MCGOLDRIG ONCE had it all, but today he is homeless and has lost his mind. Yet through his fascination with Rudolph Valentino, he finds the courage to confront his past.

Last places for Core Theatre College course

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

CORE THEATRE College has filled all but two places for the performance course, starting on September 19.

This 11-week foundation course for actors will involve training for 20 hours per week in subjects like voice, acting technique, movement, theatre history, and theatre production.

The Guard competition winner

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE WINNER of a pair of tickets to the gala première screening of The Guard in The Eye this week is Fergus MacSweeney of Barna.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.

Percy French Summer School

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

THE PERCY French Summer School will take place at Castlecoote House, Castlecoote, Co Roscommon, from Wednesday July 13 to Friday 15.

The theme of this year’s school will be ‘Lead Kindly Light’ and will focus on the relationship between Cardinal John Henry Newman and songwriter, artist, and entertainer Percy French.

Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft, the ever popular series of lunchtime comedy shows in The Ruby Room, The King’s Head, return this month.

The Vaselines - indie legends to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 07, 2011

WHAT IS it about Scotland and indie music? This is the nation which has given the genre many of its defining bands - Belle and Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Camera Obscura, and of course The Vaselines.