Galway Bay FM News Archives
Murphy to take centre stage at Galway Arts Festival
Date Published: 02-Jun-2011
BY JUDY MURPHY
Hollywood star Cillian Murphy is making an eagerly awaited return to the stage at this year’s Galway Arts Festival in a one-man show, written and directed by Enda Walsh.
Misterman is a co-production between the Arts Festival and Dublin’s Landmark Theatre Company and is a complete reworking of a blackly humorous play that Enda Walsh himself performed in 1999, explains Festival Director Paul Fahy.
Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh previously worked together to great acclaim in Walsh’s groundbreaking Disco Pigs in the mid 1990s and Misterman is the first time that they have joined forces since then.
The play has been in development for the past year and, says Mr Fahy, although it is a one-man show, it is a huge production, with a creative team that includes Dublin-born contemporary composer Donnacha Dennehy who has written a new score for it.
A major new exhibition by one of Ireland’s leading artists Hughie O’Donoghue, two Shakespeare productions from Ed Hall’s Propeller Theatre Company; a new play by UK author Mike Bartlett, supergroups AfroCubism; Blondie and authors Colm Tóibín and Emma Donoghue are just some of the participants in the Galway Arts Festival which runs from July 11 to 24.
The Festival will stage street events from French company Les Phiébulistes and Erth from Australia, while Macnas presents This Fierce Beauty, a night-time parade, starting at 8.45pm on Sunday night, July 17.
The Big Top musical acts have already been announced and include AfroCubism, Blondie, Bell X1 with Duke Special and New Zealand native Liam Finn, and De La Soul and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Other music includes Session Americana, a who’s-who of the Boston roots scene; Irish super group De Danann; Reels, Jigs & Jazz with Brendan Larrissey and Pat Collins; The National Chamber Choir of Ireland; Kaleidoscope; Iarla Ó Lionáird, The Walls, Jack L, and a series of traditional lunchtime gigs in two new Festival venues, Kelly’s Bar and Monroe’s Live, featuring a host of leading Irish musicians including Altan’s Dermot Byrne.
For more on this story, see the Galway City Tribune.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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