Tickets go on sale for Cavan arts fest

Back at the helm, Kim McCafferty is once again helping to ignite Cavan’s cultural scene with the 2026 Cavan Arts Festival, running Thursday-Sunday, May 14-17.

The first ticketed event went on sale last week, with Aoife Dunne set to make her Cavan debut with 'Good Grief', a show straddling theatre and comedy, exploring the death of her mother with razor-sharp insight.

“You’ll be laughing and crying,” says Kim, of performance which takes place at Cavan Town Hall Theatre, Friday, May 15, 8pm, tickets €25.

Dunne’s sell-out 2025 tour- including the Edinburgh Fringe and Galway International Arts Festival- makes her addition quite a coup for the local festival, which next week will announce news of a “massive special” Cavan première and an experience “like nothing you’ve seen before”.

The Cavan Arts Festival officially launches Thursday, April 16, with a striking exhibition at Town Hall Theatre, featuring a very special visual artist and unveiling the festival’s “stunning” printed programmes.

Kim promises audiences that 2026 will not just be about watching performances, but offer audiences the opportunities to immerse themselves. “So rather than just watching shows and looking at them, there'll be a lot of, if you want, getting up and getting stuck into it as well.”