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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.

When the city was being constructed in medieval times, the streets and even the lanes must have appeared wide and spacious. The only kind of traffic they would have experienced then would have been pedestrian, horse or donkey and cart and maybe the odd wheelbarrow. We have two images for you today of the east side of Eyre Square the first (courtesy the National Library) dates from c1890 and shows that type of traffic; The second (courtesy Galway County Library) shows the same area with motorised traffic. Since the latter was taken, the population has grown by 6 or 7 times, and of course, the traffic volumes have increased accordingly. So the Corporation had to make occasional changes to the bye-laws in relation to traffic.

It seems laughable today but in 1958 Archbishop John Mc Quaid of Dublin, obsessively monitored Irish life to the extent, that he did not have to ban a film, book or play outright, it was sufficient for his secretary to make it known that the archbishop had wondered if that (name of film, book or movie) was the sort of thing a good Catholic should witness.