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30,000 football fans, 130,000 racegoers, 800 horses, 5,000 bottles of champagne, 4,000 hot beef rolls — these are just some of the mindnumbing stats that will sum up Galway this Sunday when the merging of the All-Ireland Football Final, the Galway International Arts Festival and the Galway Races collide to create one of the weekends of the summer.

Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB), together with Galway Youth Theatre, has launched new research into youth theatre as a means of achieving positive personal outcomes for young people.

Former member of The Young Offenders, Kieran Macfeely – better known as Simple Kid – will play the Róisín Dubh this Friday, July 26, from 7.30pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

If you like comedy, you like shows, and you have strong thoughts on excellence, then ‘Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show’ may well be the excellent comedy show for you.

Songwriter Oisín Leech, one half of folk duo The Lost Brothers, will perform at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, July 20, at 7.30pm, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

The Galway International Arts Festival has unveiled a menu of around 20 public talks and debates in association with the University of Galway.

On Wednesday, July 17 at 8pm, the Fun Lovin’ Criminals will take to the stage with their blend of hip-hop, rock n’ roll, blues-jazz, and Latin-soul. The band burst onto the scene in 1996 with the worldwide multi-platinum debut album Come Find Yourself and their single ‘Scooby Snacks’ became an international hit.

The Saw Doctors will play a one-off concert in The Venue, Kilconly, Tuam on Wednesday May 29 prior to their European and US Summer tour which kicks off in Munich on June 8t and includes outdoor shows in New York at Central Park, Dublin at Fairview Park and Belfast’s Custom House Square.

There is nothing as innocent as the process of passion that drags you on the path to whatever you choose to do in life. The excitement of eking out a wage, of convincing yourself that people will want to consume what you produce is common across all occupations.

Sean O’Casey’s classic The Shadow of a Gunman will play Galway’s Town Hall Theatre as part of an 11-venue national tour next spring.