Providence Resources is eyeing a start date of next June for drilling at its Druid oil prospect in the Porcupine Basin off the south-west coast.

Make the most of the week ahead with these five things to check out.

Cathy Belton is currently playing Patricia Hennessy in Red Rock on TV3, and also plays Roy’s mother in Roy, the story of a cartoon boy.

He has made it big in film and on TV but Cillian Murphy is happier on stage than chasing stardom. Now he’s set to return to where it all began, writes Alan O’Riordan.

Garry Hynes co-founded Druid in the 1970s, and is not going to stop and rest on her laurels yet.

The huge box office success of John B Keane’s Big Maggie was one of the factors behind theatre company Druid recording a turnaround in its fortunes last year.

Experimental offerings won out over the traditional at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival, writes Pádraic Killeen

Garry Hynes of Druid Theatre in Galway on why she still marvels at John B’s huge ambition

JOHN BRENDAN KEANE is ten years dead today.

IN 2005, Galway theatre company, Druid, revived six works by the Irish playwright JM Synge.

CULLING quangos is the new bonfire of the vanities.

Four workmen turn to thievery in Prime Cut’s production of Owen McCafferty’s Shoot the Crow, Colette Sheridan reports

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese and her husband, Senator Martin McAleese, were special guests yesterday afternoon at Druid’s performance of Martin McDonagh’s play The Cripple of Inishmaan on Inis Meáin, Co Galway.

COLLEAGUES from the worlds of theatre and television have paid tribute to actor Mick Lally, who died yesterday morning, aged 64.

Former Glenroe actor Mick Lally has died after a short illness. The 64-year-old father of three passed away peacefully after a short stay in hospital.