Cinema Review - Kick-Ass

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

High-school geeks dressing up in ugly wet suits and calling themselves super heroes was not my idea of a great movie but I’m glad to say that, this time, I was oh so wrong, as Kick-Ass well, kicked ass.

New theatre college starting in September

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

CORE THEATRE College is a focused, part-time, professional theatre training course based in Galway which will run over 10 weeks starting on September 14.

Claire Keville to play for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

TOMORROW, THE Drivetime diarists, Fergus Finlay, Olivia O’Leary, and Joseph O’Connor, will read for the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Nuala Ní Chonchúir to launch debut novel

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IT IS 1980 and summer in Dublin. It should be a time of fun for a spiky 10-year old girl, but instead of playing outside she has to play mother to her Ma and her brothers.

This is You (New Island), the debut novel by Ballinasloe writer Nuala Ní Chonchúir, which will be launched this Saturday at 5pm in The Dáil Bar, Cross Street, Galway, as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Imagining a church for all

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IMAGINE A church which welcomed all believers in God, regardless of their specific creed, and imagine it welcomed all couples, regardless of their sexual orientation, and provided a space for them to marry.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A good book and a good bottle.

GPO’s Hawaiian party

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IF YOU cannot go to Hawaii, try the next best thing with the GPO Hula Party tonight.

There will be Slush Puppy cocktails, hula dancers, tequila challenges, and a DJ playing all the best commercial and chart hits. Doors are from 11pm with a pre party in the G Bar from 9pm with a specially themed cocktail menu and pitchers of cocktails for €10.

Bad To The Bone @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

IT’S BACK to the 1950s and 1960s and the sounds of that revolutionary era in music for the next Bad To The Bone returns to Deeper in The Cellar Bar on Saturday.

Cathal Hayden for major Town Hall trad concert

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

CATHAL HAYDEN, the great solo fiddle player and former Four Men and A Dog member, will be among the musicians at a major trad concert in Galway next week.

Sébastien Léger @ Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

SÉBASTIEN LÉGER is the first guest in a new season of events in which the 515 club from Tripod, Dublin, will host monthly parties upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.

The Ralphs to play Citóg @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

TUAM pop-punk band The Ralphs will take to the downstairs stage of The Cellar Bar tomorrow for the venue’s new original music night, Citóg.

Planet of sound

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

Roky Erickson & Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil (Chemikal Underground)

Gaf Drama Group to stage The Apple

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

THE APPLE, a new play by Jimmy Brunelle and directed by Zita Monahan, will be staged in the BOI Theatre, NUI Galway, this Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.

Theatre review: Burn The Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

CÚIRT 2010’s event-packed programme features two plays, Burn the Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon both of which run throughout the week.

Michael Harding and The Tinker’s Curse

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

WRITER/PERFORMER Michael Harding brings his powerful, much-acclaimed drama The Tinker’s Curse to the Town Hall on Thursday April 29 at 8pm.

Madcap football comedy comes to Town Hall

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

TWO FOOTBALL fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score.

The referee’s decision is final…or is it? The two cheated fans have to take matters into their own hands by kidnapping the ref and forcing him to change his mind on the all important goal... with hilarious and unexpected consequences.

Cathy Davey to kick off nationwide tour in Galway

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

THE BRILLIANT Cathy Davey plays at the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday May 8 at 8pm for what will be the first date on this full theatre nationwide tour.

Cathy is opening her tour in Galway because of the great support she received from this city at her previous concerts in the Róisín Dubh. The tour also marks the releases of her new album The Nameless, the follow up to 2007’s excellent Tales Of Silversleeve and her debut Something Ilk.

Michael D to read at Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 22, 2010

AN TAIBHDHEARC will mark Cúirt’s 25th anniversary with Aí - Inspioráid Fileata, an evening of poetry, music, and song, upstairs in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Sunday at 6pm.