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IN RECENT years, Galway’s Moonfish Theatre Company, founded by sisters Máiréad and Ionia Ní Chróinín, has been winning a burgeoning reputation as one of the most imaginative and exciting around.

Galway’s Moonfish Theatre company has won the BBC Northern Ireland Irish Language Theatre Award for its bi-lingual show Tromluí Phinocchio/Pinocchio - a Nightmare.

“I’LL TELL you something, I mightn’t be in this business at all if it wasn’t for a Galwayman, Des Kelly,” Phil Coulter tells me during our interview on Tuesday morning. “He was the leader of the Capitol Showband who were the biggest in Ireland when I was a student in Queen’s in Belfast.”

BRAND SPANKING New, the night in the Róisín Dubh which hosts new material from new Irish comedy talent, takes place on Wednesday at 8.30pm.

NEIL DELAMERE, one of Ireland’s best and most popular comedians, will bring his new show, Restructuring, to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday March 7 at 8.30pm.

2012 IS just five days old and its remaining 361 stretch out before us. It is the time when we make New Year resolutions, plan ahead, and hope for the best. So what hopes and fears does comedian Neil Delamere have for this year?

As part of its ‘Springtime of Drama’ season, the Town Hall Theatre is presenting Moment, one of the most exciting new Irish dramas of recent years.

LOVE, SEX, birth, death, dildos and salsa classes: bittersweet comedy Little Gem by Elaine Murphy sees three generations of Dublin women on a wild and constantly surprising journey which has proved an international theatrical smash.

MOMENT, THE explosive new drama by Deirdre Kinahan and Tall Tales Theatre Company, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre, from Tuesday April 26 to Saturday 30.

AFTER SELL-out seasons in New York, London, and Paris and a sold-out seven week run at Ireland’s National Theatre and a run at the Olympia, Gúna Nua and Civic Theatre bring the smash-hit bittersweet comedy Little Gem to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday October 18 and Tuesday 19.