FOR many of us, it’s hard to imagine a time when television wasn’t a fixture in our living rooms.

Ray Ryan recalls an incident 50 years ago when a suspicious device was found washed up on a beach in Ballycotton. Had the Cold War’s reach finally found its way to Ireland?

Venue: Mick Lally Theatre, Galway

Art: Art Under Attack

Michael Hilliard Mulcahy’s play, Beyond the Brooklyn Sky, deals with the generation that emigrated from Ireland in the 1980s and returned, some without having fulfilled their dreams.