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Geoff Sobelle: ‘I imagined all these roommates, just separated in time not in space, leaving marks for one another’

Home is a visual physical spectacle that combines choreography, live music, illusion and audience interaction to interrogate the idea of home

Thrown a LifeLine: ‘Every week there was another death. Everybody was asking the same thing: What can we do about the river?’

In response to Galway’s high suicide rate, more than 150 participants will tightrope-walk across the Corrib this month, to help turn it from a site of grief to a place of creativity and celebration

Girl from the North Country: In a Depression-era musical, Dylan’s music gives everyone a leg-up

Theatre review: Uplifting epilogue reminds us what perseverance sounds like, before the winds of change blow in. It sounds like Dylan

Arrest that joke: A history of gags so offensive that punters called the police

From Sacha Baron Cohen to Jo Brand, here is what happens when laughter and the law collide

The Last Return set to explore the tension of queuing at Galway Arts Festival

Director Sara Joyce and writer Sonya Kelly bring ‘an enormously triggering scenario’ to the stage

Party Scene: The buzz and burn-out of drug-enhanced sexual encounters

Review: Philip Connaughton and Phillip McMahon have collaborated on this Thisispopbaby production

Police investigate Joe Lycett standup joke after complaint

Comedian says he was asked to explain context of gag to investigating officers, and will keep it in his show

Cork Midsummer Festival: Ecclesiastes brings something new under the sun

Review: Derbhle Crotty renders the lines of ‘for everything there is a season’ with an emphasis unlikely to be heard at funerals

‘I want to pursue a long-term relationship with my friend’s father’

Ethel Rosenberg: a gruesome death by execution that shocked the world

‘We passed through the purgatory of Dublin Airport with ease, but faced a much bigger challenge after security’

Boris Johnson rejects calls from cabinet delegation to resign

Where will I live when Celtic Tiger mortgage arrears come home to roost?

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