Galway Comedy Festival is bursting at the seams with comedy brilliance, all part of a 70-strong line-up of international stars, homegrown comedy greats, and emerging talent, playing 69 shows across 16 venues over 7 days and nights. You’d best start planning your week of ‘carefully curated craic’.

Eddie Mullarkey
Galway Comedy Festival is full of mirth and mischief, but we take supporting local talent very seriously. Galwegian Eddie Mullarkey is a rising name in Irish stand-up, thanks to his deft, top-notch crowd work and interaction as well as his engaging storytelling approach to observational stand-up. They say laughter is the best medicine, and if so, then Eddie’s cheeky and seductive wit will heal all your ailments.

Glenn Wool
Glenn Wool is “effortlessly funny with an affability that other comics can only dream of” (The Guardian), an “edgy, imaginative, funny and original who sets the standards at the Fringe” (Daily Telegraph). This comedic ability has seen Glenn perform in Australia, New Zealand, USA, South Africa, Europe, Singapore, and even Saudi Arabia. He was nominated for Best International Stand Up at The New Zealand Comedy Awards and twice for Best Headliner at the Chortle Awards. A huge music fan, he has also played Reading, Leeds, Download & Glastonbury Festivals.

Kevin Gildea
Along with Barry Murphy and Ardal O’Hanlon, Kevin Gildea is one of the pioneering figures of Irish alternative comedy. He has played all the major comedy festivals in Ireland and is a regular at The Edinburgh Comedy Festival. He was a writer and performer on RTÉ’s Irish Pictorial Weekly and acted in Bridget and Eamonn and Father Ted. He has also been a script editor for many TV comedy shows.

Ronan Clancy
Ronan is the co-founder and host of Galway’s Basement Jokes Comedy Club. Having opened for the likes of Danny O’Brien, Barry Murphy and Greg Fitzsimmons, Ronan brings his own dysfunctional method of storytelling, quick wit and charm (or lack thereof) to the stage.

DOORS: 20:30 | SHOW: 21:00 | Age 18+