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The first announced events for the Linenhall Arts Centre’s Autumn/Winter 2017 are now online, heralding an exciting and packed programme that promises lots for everyone in the coming months.

Athlone-based James Whyte was this year’s recipient of the James McKenna Award at The Gerard Manley Hopkins Society’s 30th International Festival, which took place in Newbridge College from July 21 to 27.

A Galway feminist and activist is commemorating the centenary of her famous grandmother’s US tour for Irish independence with her own speaking tour this autumn.

WHAT STARTS as a peaceful day in Tokyo is turned into a living nightmare when a massive, gilled monster emerges from the sea depths and tears through the Japanese capital, leaving nothing but destruction in its wake - another typical day for Godzilla.

NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway Led Zeppelin tribute band, fronted by the multi-talented phenomenon that is Steven Sharpe, plays the Róisín Dubh next week.

WASHINGTON DC'S Keegan Theatre returns to Galway for the first time in two years, when it stages David Mamet’s darkly comic and shattering classic American Buffalo at the Town Hall Theatre.

CLUB GASS, Galway's only LGBT+ club night, will run for two nights as part of the 2017 Galway Community Pride festival, taking place in the Róisín Dubh this Friday and Saturday night.

THE FLAMBOYANT and brilliant Galway based singer-songwriter Steven Sharpe is inviting people to join him for a drink and a song in the Róisín Dubh's upstairs bar this weekend.

IRELAND'S FAVOURITE funnyman, Brendan Grace, makes a welcome return to Galway to play the Town Hall Theatre tonight [August 10] from 8pm, performing some of his most loved comedy routines.

WHILE THERE is a noticeable 1990s' indie and shoegaze revival among Irish, British, and American bands, the Australians are looking much further back for inspiration - to the dawn of indie in '70s' post-punk and the subsequent '80s' DIY scene.