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Sam Bennett ‘super happy’ with Paris-Nice opening stage as opportunity knocks

Bennett and team-mate Ryan Mullen will relish Monday’s sprint finish

Sun Mar 06 2022 - 20:56

Juliet Stevenson: ‘My agent said: Go to Hollywood. I thought: I just can’t do this sh*t’

She comes to Galway next month (kind of) in an adaptation of José Saramago’s Blindness

Sat Aug 21 2021 - 05:00

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Sat May 02 2020 - 05:00

Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre

Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism

Sat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00

Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness

Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....

Sat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00

Equity release group Seniors Money eyes return to mortgage market

Provider seeks funding to re-enter market with equity-release home loans to elderly

Wed Aug 22 2018 - 06:52

Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring start

Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon

Wed Jul 18 2018 - 15:25

The balloon - or rather, the moon - goes up as Galway’s arts festival starts

David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight

Mon Jul 16 2018 - 13:00

The psychodramas unfurling everyday day in Ikea

‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedy

Tue Jul 03 2018 - 06:00

Argos goes green . . . but for a house in the garden, try a big red affair

Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

Sat May 26 2018 - 06:00

President Michael D Higgins pays tribute to playwright Tom Murphy

Award-winning writer from Galway has died at age 83

Wed May 16 2018 - 13:51

‘I can be very narrow-minded. I’m constantly fighting with myself to be a decent person’

In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 06:00

Bach’s St John’s Passion, RTÉ NSO with Nicholas Kraemer: The best classical music this week

There’s a Nordic affair at the NCH and the ConTempo Quartet mix things up in Galway

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00

Did you hear the one about the actor trying to be funny?

Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members

Tue Apr 25 2017 - 05:00

Waiting for Godot review: The best production for 25 years

Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous

Thu Jul 14 2016 - 17:30

Garry Hynes: ‘I regret coming out as late as I did’

To mark the first anniversary of the marriage-equality referendum, Charlie Bird asks gay people, and their relatives, how Ireland has changed for them.

Sat May 07 2016 - 05:45

Foodfile: Gastronomic stories at Galway Food Festival

Sample brewer’s paste, make your own wholefood snack bars, visit Val’s Kitchen

Fri Mar 18 2016 - 06:00

Tens of thousands out all over Ireland for St Patrick’s Day parades

Strong sunshine drives numbers and exuberant atmosphere at events around country

Thu Mar 17 2016 - 18:19

Father of Irish television drama who proudly defended the ‘soap’

Wesley Burrowes: April 26th, 1930 - December 31st, 2015

Sat Jan 09 2016 - 01:00

Select: fall in love with some Galway grub

Galway International Arts Festival rolls into the City of the Tribes this weekend, and in among the visual arts, theatre and music there's some great food to be found

Thu Jul 09 2015 - 13:00