Galway Arts Festival director Paul Fahy on this year's highlights

Galway-born Fahy speaks with Sara Keating about the joys and challenges of running one of the biggest cultural events in the country

Paul Fahy: ‘An Irish festival is a cultural billboard for Irish art’ Pic: Fergal Phillips.

Paul Fahy is in fantastic form. The long-standing director of the Galway Arts Festival has just arrived in Dublin for the day to check in on rehearsals for Breakfast on Pluto, a new musical by Duke Special and Bob Kelly, which will have a late-night first viewing at the festival this year. “This is the start of my favourite time for the festival,” Fahy says, in anticipation of the busy weeks before it ...