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Lately we have been enjoying the first few sunny days of the year but another real marker of impending summer is the programme launch of the Galway International Arts Festival.

THE LAUNCH for this year’s Galway Theatre Festival took place on Monday at a lively gathering in BiteClub in Upper Abbeygate Street. A large and enthusiastic crowd gathered to mark the occasion, and between sips of prosecco and tasty canapés, the assembled guests pored over their programmes and amiably chatted about the many attractions on offer.

THE 2016 Galway Theatre Festival programme will be launched on Monday March 14 at 6pm in Biteclub, Upper Abbeygate Street. As well details of plays at the festival, there will also be DJs and dancing.

RIVERRUN, ONE of the most acclaimed and successful Galway International Arts Festival shows of recent times, is to be performed in Sydney, Australia, next year.

A THEATRE show produced by, and which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival, has been impressing audiences at Edinburgh, where it also scooped an award.

With many shows sold out this year’s attendance at the Galway Arts Festival is well on its way to reaching record numbers proving that not even the recession can keep lovers of the arts away from an event which has gained national and international recognition.

The exceptional journey Misterman, written and directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy, continues as the acclaimed play is set to be performed at The National Theatre in London this spring.

MISTERMAN, THE powerful and much-acclaimed drama, written by Enda Walsh, and featuring a tour-de-force performance from Cillian Murphy has been nominated for four Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Standing ovations for Cillian Murphy in Misterman and Propeller’s Shakespearean productions, and numerous sold-out shows mark this year’s Galway Arts Festival as among the most successful in the event’s 34 year history.

Balmy sunshine, as it so often does, greeted the launch of Galway Arts Festival on Monday evening and a large crowd of artists and arts aficionados thronged the Radisson Hotel for the event.