HOST releases new single - 'Borderline'

Thu, Sep 24, 2020

SYNTH-POP artist HOST will release her new song and video, ‘Borderline’ tomorrow, Friday September 25. The song was inspired by "the ugly, but totally normal stages of a breakup".

Covid pandemic forces cancellation of 2020 Vodafone Comedy Carnival

Thu, Sep 24, 2020

THE VODAFONE Comedy Carnival Galway, one of the major events of the Galway, and indeed Irish festival calendar, has had to be cancelled this year due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

The Devil All The Time - too much misery and too much dirt for 2020

Films Reviews Tue, Sep 22, 2020

THE DEVIL All The Time is adapted from a 2011 best seller which Netflix bought last year for distribution. It has released it for streaming but apparently has a big campaign ready to go when awards season kicks off.

Laugh and dine at the Róisín Dubh

Tue, Sep 22, 2020

INEPT HOSPITAL radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury, and Sean Finnerty, who Jimmy Fallon has called "one of the funniest comedians to come out of Ireland”, will play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

Galway musicians to host A Cup Of Music in aid of Galway Hospice

Tue, Sep 22, 2020

LEO MORAN of The Saw Doctors, singer-songwriter Marc Roberts, along with Tom Joyce and Carmel and Enda Dempsey will present a special show to raise funds for Galway Hospice.

Savage; journey far more interesting than destination

Films Reviews Mon, Sep 21, 2020

My two previous experiences of New Zealand independent cinema, the excellent, hard-hitting, Once Were Warriors and the fun Hunt for the Wilderpeople, were ones I thoroughly enjoyed so when I saw the trailer for Sam Kelly's directorial debut, Savage, I had high hopes.

Sean Keane - Live in Galway!

Sat, Sep 19, 2020

Sean Keane - Live in Galway
This Saturday night, you can watch Sean Keane Live in Galway from your living room, anywhere in the world!

Over The Edge September reading

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

THE WRITERS Ron Silliman, Molly Harris, and Fintan Coughlan will read from their works at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading on Zoom.

Drag and dine at Club GASS

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

CLUB GASS and the Galway drag queen experience is back at the Róisín Dubh with the city's leading LGBT+ club night hosting a special drag show tomorrow, Friday September 18.

Album review: Suzanne Vega

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 17, 2020

WITH COVID-19 resulting in live shows becoming very small affairs and restricting artists to touring within their own national borders, the live album has - as it was during its 1970s heyday - become again one of the few ways to experience an artist in concert.

Have you been to the GIAF gallery?

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

THE GALWAY International Arts Festival Gallery - located in the An Post network of buildings just off William Street - is open until Saturday September 26.

Culture Night 2020 - what are you going to?

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

Culture Night, Ireland's annual night of free arts, entertainments, and cultural events, to encourage the public to embrace, enjoy, and develop more interest in music, theatre, literature, dance, and the visual arts, returns tomorrow, Friday September 18.

‘A glimpse into another age and another way of doing things’

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

IN HER day she was called “the greatest living Irishwoman” by no less than George Bernard Shaw, and six of the more than 40 plays written by that woman are to be performed by Druid Theatre Company throughout her native County Galway.

Tuesday night is comedy night at the Róisín Dubh once again

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

TUESDAY NIGHTS have finally become funny again, now the Róisín Dubh’s Comedy KARLnival has returned, and headlining the next installment are Sally-Anne Hayward and John Colleary.

'Getting To Know...'

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sunday picnics.

Galway 'Virtual' Fringe Festival 2020

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

THE GALWAY Fringe Festival - normally an event on the streets, stages, and venues of the city - is moving online this year to provide "a creative digital space for new and emerging artists to get on a virtual stage and share their talents despite pandemic woes".

Óró… - cultural connections and performances in Connemara

Thu, Sep 17, 2020

LIAM Ó MAONLAÍ and Diarmuid de Faoite, along with Scottish singer Josie Duncan, and Cornish poet Taran Spalding-Jenkin, will be among the artists taking part in Óró..., which premieres in Connemara this month.

Bill & Ted Face The Music

Films Reviews Tue, Sep 15, 2020

THIS MOVIE has been rumoured for the past 10 years and kept falling apart in preproduction. However, given that Keanu Reeves has had a pretty stellar decade in the box office, it means he has enough pull to get this passion project made.

Steve and Joe Wall - acoustic shows at the Róisín

Mon, Sep 14, 2020

STEVE AND Joe Wall of The Stunning and The Walls are coming to the Róisín Dubh to perform four acoustic, stripped down, socially distant, gigs.

The Thing is coming to the Pálás

Thu, Sep 10, 2020

THE THING, John Carpenter's classic 1982 film starring Kurt Russell, and boasting special effects which were astonishing in their day, and still impressive now, will get a big screen outing at the Pálás.

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