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With a week to go before the launch of the 35th edition of the Galway Film Fleadh, two more films are announced from the Music strand.

After a busy run in The Gaiety Theatre, Martin McDonagh's first England-set play is in The Black Box in Galway this week until Saturday April 15.

Current Car — Fans of the Inbetweeners TV series and movies might be mistaken for thinking Deputy Naughton’s latest job title as Government Chief Whip refers to her ministerial car, alas it doesn’t. The Oranmore native drives her own modest eco-friendly KIA Nero and admits she had very little interest in cars. Hildegarde’s first set of wheels was an Opel Corsa, purchased from her mother, later to be traded for an Opel Astra.

One of the hallmarks of the work of 19th-century author Charles Dickens is his oddball characters and their fanciful names: Uriah Heep, Martin Chuzzlewit, Lady Honorie Dedlock, Pip Pirrip, Abel Magwich, Miss LaCreevy, and Bardle the Beedle, to name a few. Perhaps Dickens’ best-known character is Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol -who, it turns out, was inspired by a real person and whose name has become a byword for miserly and mean.

Mum Talks is an event company and community that supports, inspires, and empowers women throughout their journey of motherhood with online and in-person meet-ups, events, talks, and workshops.

THESE LAST few years have been hectic for Deirdre O’Kane, so frantic and busy in fact that it is little wonder her new show is entitled Demented.

For the twelfth consecutive year Campion Insurance has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies. The awards programme is led by Deloitte Ireland, in association with Bank of Ireland. This is the first year where the awards programme returned as an in-person event following the pandemic and culminated with a gala awards ceremony at The Convention Centre Dublin.

There is a certain symmetry to this year’s Rose of Tralee Festival Westmeath contestant, Rachel Duffy hailing from the picturesque village of Rosemount in the heart of the county.

A Galway councillor says says the Government’s Work Life Bill will fall short of meeting the very clear demand for a greater work life balance in this country.