‘We believe in this play. I don’t think I’ll let anything stop it’

Wed, Feb 17, 2021

THE OLD saying, ‘’Tis an ill wind that doesn’t blow some good’, has not been without some merit during the Covid-19 pandemic.

'Work' - Steven Sharpe goes electro on new single

Tue, Feb 16, 2021

'WORK', STEVEN Sharpe's signature song has already been a high energy acoustic number, a full on hard-rock belter, and now it comes in it's third, and latest shape - Gay-Irish-electro-funk.

Album review: Django Django

Music Reviews Tue, Feb 16, 2021

IT BEGINS in a swirl, as sounds musical and abstract weave into the sonic equivalent of the build-up to a rocket taking off, the moment of launch signalled by post-punk bass riff whose minimalism only enhances its forward momentum.

Moth & Butterfly Festival

Tue, Feb 16, 2021

TRUE STORIES, personal stories, fanciful stories, tall tales, and tales fantastic, some from the heart and some from the top of the head will be heard at the 2021 Moth & Butterfly Festival.

Russell Kane to headline Comedy KARLnival Online

Mon, Feb 15, 2021

A MULTI-award winning stand-up, a podcaster, a novelist, an actor, a scriptwriter, a presenter, Russell Kane is something of a comedic Renaissance man, and he will be live in Galway's living rooms this week.

Women Writers of the West - a new online book club

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

AWARD WINNING Galway writers Elaine Feeney, Mary Costello, and Nuala O’Connor will be the focus of the opening weeks of a new online book club - Women Writers of the West.

John Of The Apocalypse release second single

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

JOHN OF The Apocalypse - the west of Ireland alt-folk duo of Patrick Hallinan and Steve Dwane - release their second single 'Newborn' on Friday February 12.

Album review: The Fall

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 11, 2021

THE FALL’S recorded output is of such vastness that it is possible, like me, to be someone who has numerous Fall albums in your collection, and yet still have only a tiny fraction of their discography.

‘I feel a real momentum and I’ll keep going with it’

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

FOR THOSE who lived through it, 2020 was a year that will never be forgotten. It was also a year that few, if any, will remember with any trace of positivity. There may, though, be an exception.

Páraic Breathnach retires from Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

Páraic Breathnach, one of the leading figures in the Galway arts scene, has announced his retirement as managing director of the Galway Arts Centre.

Getting To Know...Racheal Palmer

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Knowing my family is happy and well.

Lackagh Comhaltas launches online trad music Feis

Thu, Feb 11, 2021

LACKAGH COMHALTAS is launching an online All-Ireland Traditional Music Feis for 2021 and are looking for musicians to sign up and take part.

RTÉ Player - better than you might think

Wed, Feb 10, 2021

HAVING REVIEWED the best of what is on offer on Netflix, Prime Video, TG4 Player and AllFour, I am almost running out of streaming services to look at, so this week I turned to the much maligned RTE Player.

The Dirty Circus is back, and live in your living room

Tue, Feb 09, 2021

DRAG QUEENS, Drag Kings, pole dancing, burlesque, and lashings of sauce and sexiness - The Dirty Circus is back and ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a bang!

Mary Coughlan releases new single

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

MARY COUGHLAN, arguably Ireland's greatest jazz singer, will release her latest single, ‘Forward Bound’, tom arrow, Friday February 5.

2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

Rita Ann Higgins, one of Galway's most original and outspoken poets, will be among those taking part in the 2021 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase.

Album review: The Staves

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 04, 2021

"THE HUMAN voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, the most moving...even the greatest virtuoso will never be able to give you even a fraction of the emotion a beautiful voice can...That is our share of the divine.”

French film to premiere in Galway

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

LEGACY, THE new film by French photographer and film-maker, Yann Arthus Bertrand, about the crisis facing humanity from climate change, will receive its Irish premiere in Galway.

Galway 2020 - back and in business for 2021 with new events

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

We may have entered the second month of 2021, but the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown makes it seem like an extension of last year. Yet, in the words of Galway city arts officer, James Harrold, "we will be in ‘play’ mode again and the deferred pleasures of 2020 will be back in our calendars".

‘I have always been fortunate to be linked with Druid’

Thu, Feb 04, 2021

PUTNEY BRIDGE, London. It is 7.40am on a bright May morning in 2017. A woman is on her way to work when a jogger, determined not to break his stride or change his pattern, pushes her out of the way, into the path of an oncoming bus.

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