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Award-winning garden designer and 2024 Bloom Gold medal recipient Leonie Cornelius is among the distinguished line-up of guest speakers at a free event focusing on the environment at Theatre 1000, ATU Galway, on Wednesday, November 13.

Boasting 'five star reviews' for its co-productions, making international press and drawing record numbers of attendees, this year's Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF) has officially come to a close.

“It can be a bit of a loner’s business all this doodling” jokes cartoonist Jim Cogan. “We’re just sitting at home in our studios. At least a festival gets us out to look at each other.”

Athlone based law firm, Tormeys Solicitors, was recognised in the second annual edition of Ireland’s ‘Best Law Firms’ special report by the Sunday Independent and the Independent Market Research Company, Statista.

Next week sees the start of previews before the world premiere in Galway of The Chief — Jimmy Murphy's a new play that reveals the man behind the iconic figure of Michael Collins. Murphy has written some of the poignant Irish drama of the past few decades and there is great anticipation at how he is to treat the Collins story.

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LOYALIST BILLY Hutchinson, a Belfast city councillor, will be among the readers at the Over The Edge annual non-fiction special on Thursday October 28 at 6.30pm.

‘The capital, Galway, is a terrible place. It has of course St Nicholas, one of the few remaining preReformation churches; the frontispiece of a Renaissance town house erected as a gateway to the public park; and a medieval fortified house about which they tell the well-known story of the Lynch who hanged his own son when the sheriff wasn't available. At least once a year while I was director of the Abbey theatre we got a play on that. From Miss Edgeworth's account of her travels to Galway it would appear that as a theme for tragedy it was popular a hundred years ago. But even before that I had a lively hatred of the town....'

HAILED AS “Ireland’s greatest voices”, The Three Tenors make a welcome return to Galway to play a socially distanced concert at Galway Cathedral.