Seven things to do this week
TODAY Get your stoutest shoes on for the Wicklow Spring Walking Festival which takes place this weekend at the Kippure House Estate, Manor Kilbride, Co Wicklow. Registration from 9am today. The festival continues until Monday.
TOMORROW The 10th Bealtaine festival for older people features hundreds of arts events taking place across the country all this month. Information on the events, which include everything from trad sessions to storytelling, is available from local libraries, on the Bealtaine Festival line, locall 1890-212121, or on 01-8057709. www.olderinireland.ie.
MONDAY Ray Lamontagne's March shows were cancelled due to illness, but he will be at The Village in Wexford Street, Dublin tonight. Tickets €14 from Ticketmaster 0818-719300. www.raylamontagne.com.
TUESDAY Liberty Live 2005 is a variety show in the style of the popular John Player Tops, put on by the staff of Irish Life and Permanent. For some good, old-fashioned dance, music and comedy performances, head to the Liberty Theatre in Dublin. Every night this week until Saturday. Tickets €18 from 01-6695100. 8pm.
WEDNESDAY The world premiere of Shay Healy's new musical, The Wiremen, takes place at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin tonight at 8pm. Tickets from the theatre, 01-6771717, and Ticketmaster, 0818-719388.
THURSDAY The Southside Comedy Club brings Scottish comics Parrot and Kirsty Moss to their HQ at the Portview Hotel on Marine Road in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. €12/10. 9pm.
FRIDAY Roddy Doyle's play No Messin' With The Monkeys has its debut at the Ark in Temple Bar in Dublin tonight. By day this monkey family live in the zoo, doing what monkeys normally do, but by night they go down to O'Connell Street for snack-boxes, cinema and Garda baiting. 7pm. Tickets €8.50 with €6.50 concessions.
