Letterfrack celebrates ‘bit of a looper’ mentor and activist
Former principal retires after hosting 100 festivals in adoptive north Connemara village
Mass escape using ladder among incidents at Galway Magdalene laundry
Homeless agency compiles new history of Mercy Order building ahead of its conversion
Controversial Galway cinema on shortlist for architecture award
Pálás cinema is selected in two categories for World Architecture Festival Awards
No valuation of State funded cinema before transfer to private company
Controversial project beset by delays and overruns received €7.5m in funding
Galway arthouse cinema board ‘co-operating fully’ with watchdog
Charities Regulator inquiry at Picture Palace ‘not in itself finding of any wrongdoing’
First look: Galway’s new art-house cinema, a ‘beautiful tower of song’
€9.5m build went over time and budget after original contractor went into liquidation
Galway’s controversial arthouse cinema open ‘by end of 2017’
Fianna Fáil councillor disappointed €9.5m project transferring to private operator
Funeral of Fergus Linehan told of kindness and principles
A theatre man who was ‘an appallingly bad actor’ and a dad who loved unconditionally
Heather Humphreys defends decision to further fund Galway arthouse cinema
Project founder Lelia Doolin says aim was to create “civic facility” for people of Galway
Galway celebrates European Capital of Culture success
Delight at announcement of 2020 title tempered with sympathy for victims of Nice attack
Galway council threatens to withdraw from cinema project
Local authority delivers ultimatum on the long-delayed €8m arthouse development
‘RTÉ told us our abortion film lacked balance’
The maker of a 1994 documentary about three Irish women’s abortion stories says some in RTÉ were worried that the women ‘didn’t show enough remorse’
‘Insurrection’: Looking at 1916 through the eyes of 1966
RTÉ’s flagship Easter Rising series is being reshown for the first time in 50 years
Inis Oírr tackles Abbey male bias with 90% female art line-up
Only one of 10 plays at Áras Éanna on Aran island this season will be performed by man
Late writer Wesley Burrowes best remembered for ‘Glenroe’
Northern Protestant wrote with great success about ‘primitive’ rural Catholic Ireland
Lian Bell: #WakingTheFeminists still waiting for the Abbey
‘If Fiach Mac Conghail wants to change things, here’s his chance. Accept the mistake. Don’t just say sorry. Do sorry’
€735,000 grant awarded to complete Galway’s arthouse cinema project
Picture Palace ran into series of obstacles after first sod turned in 2009
Druid artistic director Garry Hynes and producer Martha O’Neill become civil partners
Private ceremony took place in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre
Galway secures Unesco city of film title
First Irish city to secure film designation as part of creative cities network
Connemara corners and Norway’s fjords to host ‘pop-up’ film project
Ireland and European partners extend independent film shows to marginal regions
Beacon of political broadcasters in first decades of RTÉ
John O’Donoghue: October 6th, 1931 – September 11th, 2014
Macnas pop-up carnival helps raise €40,000 for parade
Street theatre company seeking funds for ‘goofy and Gothic’ Halloween celebration
Joint call for inquiry into Corrib policing
Politicians, journalists and social justice campaigners among petition signatories
Scaoil amach é at Inisheer’s weird and wonderful arts event
The beauty of the biennial Drop Everything is its location on an Aran Island that hums with possibility
Warm celebration at IMMA of life of artist Patrick Scott
‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’
Adams to visit anti-war activist D’Arcy in Limerick Prison
SF president to see Aosdána member suffering cancer who refuses to sign bail bond
Behind bars with the Shannon One
Margaretta D’Arcy has been a peace activist for most of her life, and neither cancer nor prison appears to deter her. We visit her in Limerick Prison, where she is controversially serving a sentence for an anti-war protest at Shannon Airport
The preferred epitaph of Peter O’Toole, the playboy of the western world
Among the stories emerging about O’Toole in Galway is the one of how a soiled jacket made for the perfect epitaph
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