The life-like pieces of Australian sculptor Sam Jinks provide one of the major exhibitions at Galway International Arts festival, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Des O'Driscoll rounds up the latest entertainment news.

Galway's European Capital of Culture project is seeking a new operations director after its current post holder signalled his departure.

The last Sonya Kelly play to visit Cork was How To Keep An Alien, which dealt with her fight to keep her Australian girlfriend Kate in Ireland.

The first theatre show has been announced for this year's Galway International Arts Festival (GIAF), which runs from July 15-18.

Cork soprano Emma Nash returns to her hometown with a production of Orfeo ed Euridice featuring a new dance element, writes Cathy Desmond.

World premieres and prestigious touring productions will feature in the Everyman Theatre’s spring/summer season.

Eoghan O’Sullivan shares the latest from the entertainment world

Poet Paul Muldoon’s intensely intimate work, ‘Incantata’, is being re-imagined for the theatre and will premiere at the Galway Arts Festival, writes Marjorie Brennan.

The Flaming Lips will play their only Irish gig at the Galway International Arts Festival 2018.

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Camille O’Sullivan is looking forward to starring in a piece forged from the works of Schubert and Buchner, writes Padraic Killeen.

MUSIC NEWS: Radiohead may have got some stick recently for playing in Israel, but Thom Yorke and co are back on more solid ground with the announcement of a 20th anniversary release of their classic OK Computer album.

For those of you not in the know - the DJ, along with the 48 piece orchestra and vocals by Cork native Gemma Sugrue, belt out a mix of 90s dance classics like you’ve never heard them before.

One third of Irish hotels have changed owners since 2011, including four out of five in Cork City, generating almost €2.5bn in sales, according to a study by property consultants Savills Ireland.

Art is Trash transformed Galway’s rubbish with surreal creations at the Galway International Arts Festival.

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Spectators were fascinated at the Galway International Arts Festival when giant fire-breathing insects took over the streets.

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Do not go to the Coal Quay in Cork without paying a visit to the Designworks Studio, even if it’s just to peer in the window.

MUSIC NEWS: After Body & Soul and Castlepalooza, the muddy fields of the midlands take a break from festival season this weekend. Probably for the best as Beyonce gets her Beyhive in Formation for a show that’s not quite sold out at Croke Park tomorrow.

Enda Walsh’s new play might have dancing, but his trademark air of menace is never far from the surface, its star Charlie Murphy tells Maria Rolston

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Enda Walsh tells Padraic Killeen about his current installation in Galway and his upcoming project with David Bowie

Opening Day of the Galway Arts Festival featuring Patricia Piccinini’s startling sculptures.

The Galway International Arts Festival kicks off this week, running from July 13-26, with a range of art, music and cinema.

Local actor Cathy Belton is proud to be leading the charge at the Galway Arts Festival, writes Padraic Killeen

What’s going on this weekend

Oliver Driver is a theatre director from New Zealand. He is the director of Live Live Cinema Little Shop of Horrors, where the performers lip-sync, play a new soundtrack and do all the foley effects live to the original Roger Corman film. It will be performed at Galway International Arts Festival on 21 & 22 July at 8pm and 23 July at 11pm in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway. This is a show for all the family to enjoy.

WITH the Spanish Arch just minutes away, it makes sense to continue the Iberian trail, and so in the middle of the Galway International Arts Festival, we rocked up to Cava Bodega.