Galway Indian Community to celebrate Diwali

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

The Galway Indian Community will hold its annual Diwali celebration at the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway, on Saturday November 10 at 5pm and is open to all who "enjoy Indian traditions, culture, and food".

Indian Cultural and Sports Community Galway to mark Diwali

Thu, Oct 25, 2018

The Indian Cultural & Sports Community Galway will celebrate Diwali - Festival of Lights, a festival celebrated by Indians across the world irrespective of their faith or beliefs.

A Fashion Fairytale for Rosabel’s Rooms.

Mon, Oct 22, 2018

Two of Galway’s most fashionable establishments, Willow Boutique and Caprice Café, have come together to host a night of fun, fashion and food on Wednesday, November 7th, to help raise funds for local charity, Rosabel's Rooms.

Countdown to the Vodafone Comedy Carnival 2018

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THERE IS little more than a week to go to the start of the 2018 Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway and this year’s star studded festival is shaping up to be an absolute belter.

Taibhdhearc@90 - a major celebration for a major birthday

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

AN TAIBHDHEARC, the city’s oldest theatre and the national Irish language theatre of Ireland, is about to celebrate its 90th birthday with Taibhdhearc@90, a star-studded show, to be directed by Maolíosa Stafford.

What happens when you try and fail to be Pulp Fiction

Films Reviews Thu, Oct 18, 2018

BAD TIMES At The El Royale is the second film from director Drew Goddard, his first was the brilliant Cabin In The Woods, the hilariously meta horror movie from 2012.

Bell X1's Paul Noonan @ Spiegeltent Sessions

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

PAUL NOONAN, lead singer with Bell X1 is taking time off from the band to pursue solo work and collaborations, with this month seeing the release of the solo single 'Moth To Your Flame', and his concert at the Galway Spiegeltent Sessions.

Macnas parade 2018 - hypnotic, intoxicating, mysterious

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

OUT OF The Wild Sky, the 2018 Macnas Halloween parade, celebrating the act of transformation, creating in its wake, a hypnotic, intoxicating, glittering, mysterious world, filled with shadow and nobility, takes place next week.

Photographs and Faeries

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHS AND Faeries, an exhibition of cyanotypes exploring personal memories, by the Burren based artist Regina O'Dea, opens tomorrow at 7pm in The Courthouse in Kinvara.

'The Season of The Witch' descends on the Pálás

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

"DOUBLE, DOUBLE toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble" said the witches in MacBeth, and there will be much witching activity in the Pálás Cinema with its Season Of The Witch films for Halloween.

'I want everyone to have fun, but I want to throw in truth bombs as well'

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

PAUL CURRIE'S comedy is like few others on the circuit right now. It is a compelling mixture of sketch comedy, theatre of the absurd, puppetry, slapstick, and mime, delivered with great physicality and energy, and usually, without the comic uttering a single word.

Warning! Adult content, delivered childishly

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

EVERY YEAR, Stephen Frost’s Improv All Stars - Stephen Frost, Steve Steen, Andy Smart, Ian Coppinger - play Vodafone Comedy Carnival and every year, and, as Hot Press has noted, "They get better than ever."

Emma Johnson and Finghin Collins in concert

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

EMMA JOHNSON, one of the few clarinettists to have established herself as a major solo artist, and who has since become of the biggest selling classical artists in Britain, is coming to Galway.

Les Misérables stars go Beyond the Barricade

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

WEST END stars are coming to Galway to perform songs from Les Misérables, as well as The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, The Lion King, and others, in the acclaimed show, Beyond the Barricade.

Over The Edge goes political for October

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

INDEPENDENT SENATOR Lynn Ruane and the Irish Examiner's Michael Clifford, will be reading at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading at the Galway City Library.

The Floating world of Finbar at Baboró

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

RUNNING ALL this week at NUI Galway’s O’Donoghue Centre is Floating, a swirling, surging, colour-filled rush of an exhibition by Finbar McHugh, as part of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Buster Keaton and Contempo - together

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

STEP BACK in time to the cinema of the 1920s, when films had no soundtrack and were accompanied by live music, when the classic 1926 silent film The General is screened in Galway.

Adam Burke - The Big, Happy Head On Ya!

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

ADAM BURKE, called a "master of comedy" by The Laughter Lounge, a "legend" by JOE.ie, and who delivers "absolute comedy gold" according to FM104', is coming to the Vodafone Comedy Carnival.

Marathon Open Mic in aid of Cancer Care West

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THREE YEARS ago, Galwegian Jamie Marshall was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. "Since then Cancer Care West has been my lifeline. They have done so much for me I wanted to give something back."

Epoch x Gash Collective weekender

Thu, Oct 18, 2018

THE WEEKEND sees a slew of Irish and international DJ talent grace the turntables of Factory at Electric, with a collaboration between the Epoch clubnight and the Gash Collective.

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