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PHILL JUPITUS is no stranger to Galway Comedy Festival, being one of the most regular guests across the event’s near 20 year history - but his 2023 Festival appearance will be of a very different nature.

Thursday is comedy night, showcasing different comics each week. Upstairs in Róisín Dubh. Gáire! Suas an Staighre.

This week’s special guest is Aideen McQueen. Aideen is one of Ireland’s top stand-ups, having reached the ‘Funny Funny’ comedy competition final after her third gig. She also reached the semi-finals of the national new act competition ‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014.

Music for Galway’s 20th Midwinter Festival, this year themed SEASONS is taking place at the Town Hall Theatre, Galway as well as the Hardiman Hotel between January 20 and 22.

TOM STADE is “so cool he could well be the answer to global warming…gloriously funny, silly and smart”.

HE PLAYED Fr Dougal McGuire on Father Ted; a hard working superman in My Hero; a tropical detective in Death in Paradise; even a spaceship piloting cat on Dr Who.

GREGARIOUS, COCKY, outspoken, back-slapping, pint raising, Bulldog spirited, and brimming with Jingoism, it can only be The Pub Landlord, and he will be serving the laughs in your front room.

TOM O'MAHONY, described by the late, very grate Rik Mayall as "psychotically funny", and Jo Caulfield, “one of the finest female comics at work” according to The Observer, play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.

STEVE GRIBBIN is a guitar-wielding satirist from Liverpool whose scabrous comedy songs, and off the wall observations, are firmly based in rock‘n’roll and pull no punches.

THE CHAOS unleashed by Brexit - political, parliamentary, legal, and constitutional — specifically the threat of No Deal is, understandably, not something Jayde Adams wants to get into today.