ConTempo's European lunchtime concerts

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BREXIT HAS made Britain very unpopular. The EU's adherence to neo-liberal centrism has seen its reputation take a battering. The populist right is on the rise. Best take a break from our continent's awful politics, and concentrate on what it does best - culture.

IN LiMBO between traditional and modern

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

STRADDLING THE worlds of traditional and contemporary, IN LiMBO takes a journey where few have gone within Irish step dancing, as Galway will see when the show comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

'We’ve encoded our folk memory in language'

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

GLOBE-TROTTING Gaeilgeoir extraordinaire, Manchán Magan, brings two delightful interactive shows to the Town Hall Theatre next month, where he will invite audiences to explore and celebrate Irish language and culture.

Edwin Sammon to headline next Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

BETWEEN HIS stand-up sets and his TV roles as Fr Gabriel in Bridget and Eamon, and co-presenter on Republic Of Telly, Edwin Sammon has emerged as one of the most popular comedians in the country.

A new take on Strindberg’s Miss Julie at The Eye

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

JULIE, A re-imagining of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, from writer Polly Stenham, is being staged by Britain's National Theatre, and will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Victory for Galway's Testostertones choir

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

NUI GALWAY'S Testostertones won the National Male Choir Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival - the first college based choir, and the first Galway choir, to take this title.

Dylan Murphy releases new EP

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

DYLAN MURPHY, guitarist with Steven Sharpe & The Broke Straight Boys, makes a further step into solo territory with his new EP, Make Plans, his most confident and assured solo release to date.

Everything you ever wanted to know about designing video games

Thu, Aug 30, 2018

GALWEGIANS AGED from 10 to 12, who want to design video games, and learn what is involved in developing a game from concept to design, will have a chance to do so at a workshop in September.

Hugh Cornwell - former Stranglers man to play Róisín Dubh

Wed, Aug 29, 2018

HUGH CORNWELL, former lead singer of The Stranglers, and voice of the band's finest songs - 'Golden Brown', 'Strange Little Girl,' 'Always The Sun', 'Peaches', 'No More Heroes', (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) - is coming to Galway.

Villagers to play Galway in December

Tue, Aug 28, 2018

VILLAGERS HAVE announced a return to Galway in December to play the Black Box Theatre, while their fourth studio album, The Art Of Pretending To Swim, will be released next month.

Album review: The Fall

Music Reviews Thu, Aug 23, 2018

IF YOU told the late John Peel you were keen to get into The Fall - his favourite band - and asked him what was the best album to start with, he might have replied: "Their entire discography".

Dott to give Heart Swell official launch tonight

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

'GOOD THINGS come to those who wait' as the old saying goes, and that is certainly the case with Dott's second album Heart Swell, which gets it's official launch in the Róisín Dubh tonight.

See Casablanca on the big screen

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

"OF ALL the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." "We'll always have Paris." "Play it, Sam." It is one of the greatest films of all time, one of the most loved, and filled with memorable quotes. It is Casablanca.

Fair City actor to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

LISA HARDING, who played Connie in RTÉ’s Fair City, will read from her prize-winning novel, Harvesting, at the Over The Edge: Open Reading which takes place in the Galway City Library next week.

Nutan's view of Kinvara and the west

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

MY WORLD, an exhibition of photographs and paintings by the acclaimed Irish based, Belgian photographer, Nutan, opens today [August 23] at 7.30pm in The Courthouse Gallery, Kinvara.

'I think that still makes me Europe’s fastest joke teller'

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

“IT'S BEEN about 20 years since I last played Galway,” Tim Vine begins our interview, and that is before I have even got the chance to ask him a question. “I was just looking through my diaries; I’ve got every diary I kept ever since I started doing comedy so it will be listed here somewhere, I just can’t find it right now.”

Vodafone Comedy Carnival 2018 line-up announced

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

DYLAN MORAN, Sean Lock, Reginald D Hunter, Jason Byrne, Rich Hall, Milton Jones, Gina Yashere, Joel Dommett, Rhys Darby, Enya Martin, Al Murray and Dermot & Dave are just some of the stand-up superstars heading to Galway for this year’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2018.

The Voldemort Quartet are coming

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

HAS THE evil wizard Voldemort, arch enemy of Harry Potter, his own string quartet? It appears so, and these young musicians will be among the performers at the Galway Music Residency autumn/winter programme.

Comedy Carnival to be launched at the Comedy KARLnival

Thu, Aug 23, 2018

YOU KNOW Joel Dommett. He was a finalist in 2016’s I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here and appeared in BBC 3's Impractical Jokers and E4's Skins. The next time he appears will be on stage, marking the launch of the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Film review: The Festival

Films Reviews Thu, Aug 23, 2018

WHEN OUR hero Nick is dumped publicly at his graduation, his best friend Shane insists they go on a rite of passage by attending a music festival, and doing loads of drugs in a muddy field in the middle of England - this is basically The Festival's entire premise.

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