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Award-winning play No Magic Pill kicks off an Irish tour at the Black Box Theatre in Galway tonight for just 3 performances; Thursday and Friday 8pm and 2pm this Saturday.

The award-winning play No Magic Pill returns to Galway next week for three performances only prior to an Irish tour. Playwright, Christian O'Reilly, whose most recent play – Unspeakable Conversations - captivated audiences at Galway International Arts Festival this summer – wrote this hilarious and heartfelt story to honour Spiddal native and disability rights activist Martin Naughton, who was also a key figure in the establishment of the Independent Living Movement in Ireland.

But for one night only, that is what is happening in the Town Hall Theatre. The dapper Dublin comedian is hosting a night with some of the best funnywomen in Ireland, on Thursday, October 24, to display all their (to borrow a phrase from Ru Paul) charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.

Two foot-stompin’ bands will headline at Monroe's Live this weekend with the finest of folk-rock and traditional Irish music from The Kilkennys and The Amazing Apples.

Bádóirí an Chladaigh, the classic boat-building and training group, has announced the official donation and transfer of the Naomh Bairbre, the world’s largest Galway hooker, back to Galway. The handover ceremony took place in the Claddagh Basin on Saturday, July 20, 2024, attended by the new city mayor, Fianna Fáil councillor Peter Keane, alongside notable community figures.

The Covid-19 pandemic caused devastating social and economic disruption worldwide. The lockdowns, in particular, had far-reaching effects on many crucial aspects of daily life, including people's behaviour.

New mortgage lender MoCo, has been revolutionising the nation's home-loan markets by announcing that it would be prepared to issue mortgages that people can pay off until age 80.

Joseph Owens lived in Glenamaddy with his wife, who was born Annie M Tuohy. They had three children, Dick, Mary, and her twin Joseph (born February 4, 1912), who was known to one and all as Josie. The father died very young. Annie remarried, this time to a man named Doorly, and in 1922, the family bought a four-bay four-storey early 19th century house in Lower Dominick Street from Nora O’Donnell and moved to Galway. Annie was a busy woman, she opened a drapery shop where she designed clothes, made them and sold them in her shop, and she kept lodgers upstairs, all as she was rearing her children.

Waiting outside the office of the Irish Times’ managing director, one might expect a snotty Moneypenny to usher you into a dark, wood-panelled study where a stern Judi Dench as M, in James Bond, will be enthroned at a leathered desk, waiting to receive, with a thousand-yard death stare.

Eoin McGee (How To Be Good With Money) returns with a brand new Consumer show on RTÉ and wants to hear from potential participants from the Midlands region!