The CRAIC on Saturday May 24th, 2014
*The cycling Tour de Conamara takes place this weekend in Clifden, with a choice of 140km or 80km routes.
*Starting in Ballyvaughan, the Clare Burren Marathon Challenge takes place today with options for a mini, half and full marathon.
5:30pm: President Michael D Higgins will attend a keynote address and free public talk in the O’Flaherty Theatre, NUIG to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the naming of Neanderthal man by a Galway based scientist, Professor William King. The address will be given by Professor Svante Pääbo, Director of the Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and the first person to sequence the DNA of Neanderthal people.
8pm: A dramatic show with Jon Kenny, Mag Mell, takes place at the Town Hall Theatre for one night only.
8pm: Mick Flannery, a singing and song writing force, will take to the stage at the Roisin Dubh on Dominick Street.
8pm: Catch ‘Postscript’ a poignant and humours story about an adopted person’s search for identity at the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane.
8:30pm: Dive into the Irish tradition, via jazz, funk, pop and electronica at Monroe’s Live with The Olllam, Padraig Rynne, Jeremy Kittel and Michelle Chamuel while covers band Oddity will rock the house at midnight.
9pm: The Astralnaut ‘Thieves, Beggars and Swine’ EP launch takes place at The Cellar bar on Eglington Street.
9pm: Beggars Velvet are set to entertain downstairs at The Quays while upstairs in the Music Hall you can catch Blue Moose.
11pm: Carbon nightclub presents DJ Tom Starr, a founding member of Moda Collective, for his second instalment behind the decks.