We Banjo 3 - keeping people connected despite coronavirus

Thu, Apr 09, 2020

SOCIAL MEDIA can often be a toxic, abusive, and ugly space, but with the coronavirus lockdown, artists, writers, and especially musicians, have shown that social media can, at it's best, be a positive and uplifting space.

Chris Haze releases new EP this month

Thu, Apr 09, 2020

CHRIS HAZE, the Galway singer-songwriter, has, like so many musicians during the coronavirus restrictions, and more recently the lockdown, not let it stop him from being creative and resourceful in these strange times.

Dungeons & Naggins - live on YouTube

Tue, Apr 07, 2020

NORMALLY, A dungeon is not something you want to be trapped in. A dragon is not a creature you ever want to be face to face with, but in this time of Covid-19, they are just the kind of things you might want to escape to!

Cúirt literature festival goes online

Mon, Apr 06, 2020

CÚIRT INTERNATIONAL Festival Of Literature will become the first literary festival in the world to be a completely digital event, when it goes online later this month.

Sorcha Richardson gig postponed to the autumn

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

SORCHA RICHARDSON, the Choice Prize nominated indie-rock singer-songwriter, was due to play the Róisín Dubh on April 18, but that gig has now been postponed.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Apr 02, 2020

Cecilia Danell, visual artist, songwriter
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin

See the Comedy KARLnival Birthday Bash on Friday

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

IT MAY be only two years on the go, but the Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh is arguably a Galway comedy institution which even the coronavirus cannot keep down.

Family movies to watch during the lockdown

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

THIS WEEK I am going to recommend some family movies to watch during the lockdown and coronavirus restrictions that, perhaps, you might not have considered.

Enjoy a daily online art exhibition

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

DESPITE THE coronavirus restrictions and consequent social distancing, Galway can still look forward to attending an art exhibition each day at 6pm.

‘This book is very much of the moment’

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

NEAR THE start of Sara Baume’s wonderful new book, handiwork, there is a quote from The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett.

Druid’s production of Playboy available to watch online for Leaving Cert students

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

DRUID THEATRE'S award-winning 2005 production of The Playboy Of The Western World by JM Synge is now available online for free as a resource for those studying the play for the Leaving Cert.

Getting To Know...

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends.

Niamh Regan plays Mick Flannery's new gig series

Thu, Apr 02, 2020

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Niamh Regan will play tomorrow's Mini Gigs at Mick’s, the new series of online concerts curated by Mick Flannery, in partnership with PlayIrish.

ConTempo concerts postponed, but the music does not stop

Wed, Apr 01, 2020

CONTEMPO HAS cancelled its concerts for April and is planning to postpone shows planned for May, owing to the continuing restrictions needed to combat the coronavirus.

The Comedy KARLnival goes online

Mon, Mar 30, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS may have stopped us from going out to see a comedy show, but it cannot stop stand-up comedy coming straight to us.

KAVA's latest exhibition goes online

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

AFTER DARK, the latest exhibition from members of Kinvara Area Visual Arts, will not be on display at the Kinvara Courthouse, owing to Covid-19 restrictions, but it will be online.

The best box sets to watch on Netflix and Amazon

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

WHILE I do love watching movies, sometimes when the nights are particularly long, having a TV show to binge on can be an enormous comfort. We have all watched a lot of these shows, such as Breaking Bad or Mad Men, so here are a few which maybe you have not seen yet.

What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?

Coffee Break Read Thu, Mar 26, 2020

Gugai - Róisín Dubh music promoter and founder of Strange Brew Records, chooses Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

‘Doing these Open Mic live streams, I don’t feel like I'm in isolation'

Thu, Mar 26, 2020

IT WAS the first Sunday of the coronavirus restrictions. Pubs and venues were closed. Shops were shut. Streets were deserted. Galway was, to quote The Specials, “coming like a ghost town”.