Cinema review: Gold

Films Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

IFTA AWARD winning director Niall Heery’s latest film Gold is a wonderfully well worked comedy-drama set in rural Ireland.

Play by Love/Hate creator for the Linenhall

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

A play from the creator and writer of crime drama smash hit Love/Hate is coming to the Linenhall this month.

Soaring choral concert for Louisburgh

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

The Mayo Male Voice Choir is joining forces with mezzo soprano Annemarie Gibbons to perform a special concert in the Derrylahan, Louisburgh, tonight at 8.30 pm.

Ms Gibbons is internationally acclaimed for her operatic performances and will return to her native Louisburgh to perform with the choir and raise funds for the local Order of Malta.

So Cow - the long road to The Long Con

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

YOUR TWENTIES are not necessarily the best years of your life, certainly not the years between 25 and 29. In a city, your 20s become an extended adolescence, but after the parties and the wildness is over, you reach a crossroads of ‘Thirty is on the horizon - what the hell am I going to do with my life?’

Win tickets to stage show of The Gruffalo

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

TALL STORIES, the musical stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler award winning picture book, The Gruffalo, is coming to Galway.

Shappi Khorsandi - laughing at an unconventional life

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

THE DAUGHTER of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi Khorsandi’s upbringing was in no way conventional, but what a story, and what comedy, she makes from it all.

ROCKtoberfest - a weekend of music at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

ROCKTOBERFEST, GALWAY’S new ‘indoor music festival’ will see Monroe’s Live play host to 22 up-and-coming Irish bands, across a wide range of genres, starting today and running throughout the weekend.

TULCA to go Neutral for 2014

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

NEUTRALITY IS a much discussed, often thorny political and historical subject in Ireland, but being ‘neutral’ and the ideas it implies is the subject of TULCA 2014.

Public lecture on Oscar Wilde’s father

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

SIR WILLIAM WILDE, the father of Oscar Wilde, will be the subject of a public lecture in the Galway City Museum next week.

Films from opposite ends of the Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

MOHAMAD MALAS’S first film in almost a decade and a French film about an actor coming out of retirement will be screened in Galway this weekend.

The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

SCOTTISH PUPPETEER and ‘object-theatre’ artist Shona Reppe makes her fifth visit to Baboró with a show that promises to be a festival highlight, The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean.

Acts announced for Comedy Club 4 Kids

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

WHY SHOULD adults have all the fun? Why can’t the children get in on the laughs as well? They can - as long as they are over the age of six - at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Foróige drama returns tomorrow

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

FORÓIGE’S WEEKLY drama group returns for its new term tomorrow at the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, opposite the coach station.

Art at UHG

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

EXCURSION, AN exhibition of paintings by Pat Byrne is currently on show in the Arts Corridor of University Hospital Galway.

Take a Lecherous Gaze at ‘rock-punk heavy jams’

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

LECHEROUS GAZE’S music fits somewhere between garage and stoner rock, but they prefer to describe themselves as playing “psycho-delic shred-tastic ultra-hyphened rock-punk heavy jams.”