Event of the week
Galway Comedy Festival
From Tuesday, October 21st, until Monday, October 27th, Pálás Cinema and other venues, various times and prices, galwaycomedyfestival.ie
Live comedy is booming, judging by the number of gigs, as well as by the number of comedy festivals: there seems to be one almost every month. And that’s without mentioning the residencies that big names such as Tommy Tiernan and Dara Ó Briain regularly take up at Vicar Street and elsewhere – Joanne McNally has announced 23 nights at the 3Olympia Theatre, in Dublin, between November this year and March 2026, and she’s well on her way to having sold out half of them. Galway Comedy Festival features the Irish comics Deirdre O’Kane, Andrew Maxwell, Emma Doran, Dylan Moran, David McSavage, Al Porter and Barry Murphy, as well as the international names Jack Dee, Omid Djalili, Rich Hall, Rhod Gilbert and Paul Smith (fresh from his sold-out shows at 3Arena, in Dublin, two weeks ago).
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