Arts & Culture

Maireád Whyte isn’t afraid to take a chance and embrace change. If she was, she wouldn’t have swapped life as a company director in the UK for that of a self-publishing writer with no previous connection to the world of literature.

AS director of the award-winning film The Pipe, which chronicles the controversy surrounding the Corrib gas pipeline and the community affected by it, Richie O’Donnell is a man who doesn’t shy away from his social conscious. If only his sporting allegiance was as strong.

‘YOU run the first half of a marathon with your legs, the second half with your mind’ is a mantra intoned by athletes preparing for the 26.2-mile ordeal. But how do you prepare two actors to run on the spot for almost an hour while they simultaneously deliver their lines to the audience?

FISHAMBLE: The New Play Company will certainly have a busy weekend when they visit Ennis this month. The theatre company will be performing two plays at Glór in Ennis.

PRIMARY school pupils are once again being encouraged to put pen to paper and enter a haiku competition.

TWO bands that embody the multicultural arts scene with their acoustic sounds will come together for a very special concert in Glór this month.

GLÓR’S First Friday series presents a double bill this month with performances by Seamus Begley and Tim Edey, along with Damien O’Kane.

MULTI-instrumentalist, performer, composer and songwriter Tom Portman will be performing at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon this Saturday.