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IN RECENT years Druid Theatre Company has shown itself the master of largescale theatrical projects with both DruidSynge and DruidMurphy. Yet in both cases it was dealing with playwrights in whose work it already had a deep grounding, writers and plays that could be said to be part of the company’s DNA.

DRUID THEATRE Company has announced details for one of its most ambitious undertakings, DruidShakespeare, a fitting project to mark the company’s 40th anniversary year.

A man who fought with four gardaí and had to be restrained with pepper spray after being stopped in an uninsured car was told he would have got “a much longer sentence” had his arresting garda not spoken up for him in court.

Athlone Musical Society will present the musical favourite Oklahoma! in the Dean Crowe Theatre from Saturday March 2 to Saturday March 9.

NATHAN DETROIT has a problem. He needs money. He has a floating crap game, where players make wagers on the outcome on rolling dice. The game is illegal and only one venue in New York will hold it.

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The half-hearted effort by the Government to offer justice to the women who were incarcerated involuntarily between 1922 and 1996 (yes, that recently) has been welcomed by the survivor advocacy group Justice for Magdalenes this week, although they are not entirely satisfied with the effort.

Some of the ideas mentioned below may be obvious to you but sometimes we become too familiar with the obvious and do not implement it.

Looking at the Greek riots you’d wonder why there are no decent riots here in Ireland. We had the so called ‘storming of the Dáil’ earlier in the week but it was much ado about nothing. Apparently we’re a lot better off than Greece, sure aren’t we giving them a big loan. The fact that we don’t have the money ourselves and have had to borrow the money to lend it to them is only a minor detail.

Kilkenny Musical Society is to host an Awards Party in DTs Bar, (The Pembroke Hotel) on Patrick’s Street to mark the winning of three prestigious awards.