Arts & Culture

The Green-Graph 2011 photography competition is looking for pictures that show a snapshot of an Irish world.

TRUE GRITDIRECTED BY: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen STARRING: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon CERT: 15AFeels like True Grit has been around forever. I don’t mean the Charles Portis novel from 1968, or the John Wayne film from a year later. I mean this True Grit, by the Coen brothers – a film that’s closer in detail and tone to the book than it is to The Duke’s great old Western.

Channel HoppingStill reeling from the revelation that Jedward will represent us at Eurovision? Well tune in to BBC and get your laugh on for all the right reasons. Red Noses are being donned across the water as Comic Relief kicks up a gear.

Simon Pegg is a clever man. He’s also a very funny bloke. From his writing credits on Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz to entertaining turns in Run Fat Boy, Run or How to Lose Friends and Alienate People he’s normally a very safe bet for an evening’s entertainment.

Ryan Sheridan, a solo singer and guitarist from County Monaghan, should make a big impression at the Queens Hotel in Ennis this Friday night. As a teenager, Ryan made his tentative first steps on stage in the pubs and clubs of Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

THE 50th annual West Clare Drama Festival will be held in Doonbeg parish hall from Saturday, March 5 until Monday, March 14. The first festival was held in 1962.

COME Friday, February 25, people may have had enough of the 2011 General Election. Anyone who lives within driving distance of Mullagh hall and who is into farcical comedy, as opposed to farcical politics, will have an option.

TEN years ago a group of friends gathered together in their local pub in Corofin and hatched a plan to bring some musicians to the village for a weekend festival. A decade later, the Corofin Traditional Festival has grown into a week-long event attracting a host of musical talent to North Clare.