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FOR SOME 25 years, Gary Lydon has been among the most stalwart of Irish actors with a string of acclaimed performances on stage, television, and film. His credits include leading roles in Billy Roche’s Wexford Trilogy, TV series The Clinic - for which he won two IFTAs - and the films Calvary, Small Engine Repair, and Michael Collins.

THERE IS no doubt that one of this year’s hottest tickets in Irish theatre is Decadent Theatre Company’s imminent production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, which opens in the Town Hall Theatre later this month. So despite what you hear on the radio, Galway, not Dublin, gets to see the Irish premiere.

A new film which recreates the events leading up to the fateful night of September 29, 2008, when the Irish government guaranteed the entire domestic banking system and unwittingly started one of the most expensive bank rescues in history, is to be screened as part of a special live event at Mayo Movie World in Castlebar on Thursday evening.

ROLL UP, roll up and enter the shady world of Delaney’s Travelling Roadshow. Step inside the boxing ring - smell it, sense it, feel it and somewhere between the fights and the fortune tellers, the bookies, and the bloodshed, rub shoulders with its wayward wards.

THE TOWN Hall Theatre has just released details of its programme for the coming months and audiences can look forward to a line-up packed with theatre, music, comedy, film, and even some beer for good measure.

CORK BASED Meridian Theatre Company is in the Town Hall on Monday November 16 at 8pm with its touring production of Billy’s Roche’s new play One Is Not A Number, featuring The Clinic’s Gary Lydon.