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Galway Comedy Festival reveals 2025 line-up ahead of October bash

Something for the Weekend: The Wild Geeze's cultural picks

Something For The Weekend

Dublin Fringe: Anna Clifford's confessions of a teenage soap star

Dublin Fringe Festival

American satirical singer-songwriter, Tom Lehrer, UK, 27th October 1966. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tom Lehrer, satirical songwriter and mathematician, dies aged 96

Comedian Janine Harouni poses backstage at the one woman stand up-comedy show "Man'oushe"

Janine Harouni: "My favourite crowd to play to is an Irish crowd"

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Kyla Cobbler

Comedian Kyla Cobbler on standing up for a good cause

Colin Geddis: "It went from that to being offered a part on a BBC show called LOL, which would not make you lol if you had a gun to your head,"

Comic Colin Geddis on paving his way in Belfast's comedy scene

Emma Doran

Emma Doran: "I went off to explore and got as far as Courtown"

Vittorio Angelone: "I tend to think that I'm not making my stuff for other comedians."

Comedian Vittorio Angelone: "I'm built like a Shetland pony"

Close up of comedian Taylor Tomlinson

Taylor Tomlinson on turning personal trauma into comedy gold

Lucy Beaumont: "My life is like a sit-com, that's why we ended up filming a sit-com."

Lucy Beaumont on comedy, misogyny & gigging with Paddy Kielty

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Jim Jefferies on why he's changing his comedy style

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Callan's Kicks

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Callan's Kicks: The slap, the Census and an airport mess

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Listen: Callan's Kicks' Budget Special - and Covid's return!

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Watch: Leo Goes to Coppers - Callan's Kicks preview

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Callan's Kicks preview - a message from 'The Taois'

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Callan's Kicks on a hell of a week - a special mini episode