A thriller about men being trapped in their own headsFirst-time playwright Christine Dwyer Hickey feels ‘very exposed’ as opening night loomsMon Mar 03 2014 - 01:00
No nuts, just drinks: partying with Ireland’s powerfulHaughey? Always interesting. Enda Kenny? A great mimic. Thirty years on, Maureen Cairnduff remembers the soirees she held at her home and the influential directory that sprang from themMon Feb 24 2014 - 01:00
Tramore hopes to develop its coastal attractions, with less of the hurdy-gurdyElectoral changes are causing concern over a weakening of the town’s political influenceMon Feb 17 2014 - 01:00
A deaf-defying performance: ‘I sing with my hands’Deaf performer Caroline Parker signs to popular songs in her one-woman showMon Feb 10 2014 - 01:00
Winter flood. Money droughtRoads, car parks, sea walls and beaches have been destroyed in Co Clare, where locals are wondering when the next deluge will come, and who will fund the repairsSat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
Aosdána. What is it, and what does it do for its €2.7m?The affiliation of artists has a low profile for such a highly funded cultural organisation.Sat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00
No guns in 3D printing land but almost anything else goesA workshop in Rathmines gives a glimpse of the future, as printers turn out everything from miniature Wellington Monuments to . . . well, anything, so long as it’s non-lethalTue Feb 04 2014 - 01:00
Culture strategy: civic spaces, a funded theatre group and arthouse cinemaDesire to create a meaningful ‘legacy’ of arts-related work one of the key objectives of Limerick City of CultureMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
Darren Shan: My favourite place in Limerick is Donkey Ford’s fish and chip shopThe fantasy writer on how his city has come a long wayMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
Arts Council appoints new chair and board membersSheila Pratschke succeeds Pat Moylan as chair of councilWed Jan 29 2014 - 01:00
Will our Nobel laureates scare us off a new Irish ‘literary experience’?The Irish Literary Trust wants to set up a ‘definitive’ attraction. But its research suggests we’re not keen on parts of our cultural heritageSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
50 ways to make it to paydayFeeling the effects of the yawning gap between the pre-Christmas and end-of-January salary cheque? Cheer up! We have some tips to stretch your last few lonely euroSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
Arts Council cuts annual grant by Abbey by €600,000Council has a budget €56.9 million for 2014Thu Jan 23 2014 - 10:37
Branding, riots and archives centre stage at AbbeyLimerick City of Culture controversy among issues tackled at ‘Theatre of Memory’ symposiumSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:01
Meteorites and other Offaly odditiesFrom pyramids to partridges, a new book shows off the county’s quirky sideWed Jan 15 2014 - 01:00
Director of Poetry Ireland eyes up new abode for bardsA national centre in Dublin that ‘poets would see as their home’ is top of the agenda for Maureen KennellyMon Jan 13 2014 - 01:00
A new script for the Irish Writers’ CentreThe organisation has had a tough few years since losing Arts Council funding in 2009. New director Valerie Bistany is hoping to draw a line under its past and to establish a fresh identityWed Jan 08 2014 - 01:00
Looking for a pulse among dead Irish writersDublin Writers Museum opened 22 years ago to celebrate the capital’s literary tradition but it now feels more like a mausoleumSat Jan 04 2014 - 01:00
How did an astronaut come to be carved into the portico of Salamanca's cathedral?A learning experience: Salamanca and sister cities Alcalá and Ávila are full of enriching surprisesSat Jan 04 2014 - 01:00
Who’d be a farmer? We wouldStudents at agricultural college explain why they’ve chosen a farming life, and 79-year-old Paddy Joe Roseingrave explains why he’ll never give upFri Jan 03 2014 - 02:00
13 reasons for Santa to visitChristmas dinner is the one meal of the year when the Maher family will sit down together at the table – all 15 of them. By Rosita BolandWed Dec 25 2013 - 01:00
Bone idols: Dressing and bejewelling martyrs’ skeletons for public display was once common in GermanyHeavenly Bodies, Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, By Paul KoudounarisSat Dec 21 2013 - 01:00
A very Haughey Christmas but no merry new yearWhen my publisher told me in 1987 that one of my poems would appear on the then taoiseach’s Christmas cards, I thought he was jokingTue Dec 10 2013 - 01:00
How 11 striking Irish workers helped to fight apartheidOn July 19th, 1984, Dunnes Stores worker Mary Manning refused to check out a customer’s South African fruit.Fri Dec 06 2013 - 12:00
National Crafts and Design Fair lights up RDSVisitors surprised to see large area given over to plastic imported toys and dollsThu Dec 05 2013 - 01:00
‘We’re sisters, not nuns. Nuns are another breed’Half a century ago, she left the man she loved to become a missionaryin Africa. Now retired, Sr Cora Richardson (78) was this week honoured for her services overseasSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
Musical Youth Foundation strikes a chord with young people from inner-city DublinSet up four years ago by Chris Maher, MYF offers free guitar lessons and musical instrumentsSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
Anne Doyle: ‘Do I miss RTÉ? It sounds kind of rude to say no’Almost two years after leaving our screens, the former newsreader is returning to host a new quiz show. What else has she been up to since she left the RTÉ newsroom?Tue Nov 19 2013 - 01:00
Catholic pamphlets from 1920s to 1970s on viewOld leaflets can be seen in an exhibition at National Print Museum in DublinSat Nov 16 2013 - 01:01
Ditch the umbrella: how I fell in love with cocktail cultureI learned many things during my year studying in Harvard, but perhaps the most unexpected lesson was an introduction to the pleasure of real cocktailsWed Nov 13 2013 - 01:00
Children of Lissadell emerge smiling after belated court victoryOwners not present to witness conclusion of protracted caseTue Nov 12 2013 - 02:00
‘Please speak to someone. You are not alone’Why don’t domestic-violence victims just leave? Because it often builds up gradually, breaking them down bit by bit, as the staff of Domestic Violence Response, a support service for affected women and children, know only too wellSat Nov 02 2013 - 01:00
Fashion in vogue for Irish journalism studentSarah Waldron is on a journalism pathway with other fashion studentsSat Nov 02 2013 - 01:00
The night mart: ‘It’s cheaper than the pub’Welcome to Gort mart in Co Galway, a world of coded language, hand signals and few women, where the bidding is ferocious and no seller wants to go firstTue Oct 29 2013 - 01:00
Brothers on tour with relics of St AnthonyDevotees pray for health, faith and jobs as relics are driven around the StateThu Oct 24 2013 - 01:00
Caroline Downey: ‘I have no interest in being a TV presenter again. I didn’t really enjoy it so much’The ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ judge talks about fame, women in business and privacySat Oct 19 2013 - 01:00
Libraries, lectures and drunkennessTrinity College Dublin seemed to have an especially fine array of eccentrics in the 1980s, making first year even odder for a convent girl from the west. This article features in a new book about the university in that decadeSat Oct 05 2013 - 01:00
Hello DollyWith more than 420 dolls in her collection (and more on the way), Co Meath pensioner Mary Hickey loves her charges so much she checks on them ‘100 times a day’Sat Sept 21 2013 - 00:00
Video: Loop Head celebrates being the best place to visit, even in gale-force winds and fogCommunity spirit saves celebrations amid gale-force windsSun Sept 15 2013 - 22:31
Feelings of relief and anti-climax in Ennis car parkWomen sacrifice personal style to wear polyester Clare jerseys in lurid coloursMon Sept 09 2013 - 01:00
‘There’s not a jersey to be had in the whole county’Clare All-Ireland hurling preview: for €4 I got a hat that sings a verse of ‘My Lovely Rose of Clare’Fri Sept 06 2013 - 22:25
The most public of burials for the most private of menCountless hearts are blown open as local farmer’s son is laid to restTue Sept 03 2013 - 01:00
Mourners told of Heaney’s ‘greatness and graciousness’Archbishop says poet was always a man of kindness and humilityMon Sept 02 2013 - 01:00
‘If I had put too much thought into this, it wouldn't have happened’Irish Lives: Twist soup kitchens are now in seven Irish townsSat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00
Anne Gildea: ‘The first draft was insane. It was so angry’The autobiography of the comedian Anne Gildea is both a visceral account of breast cancer and a glimpse into a hard childhoodSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
Imminent shutdown of department store blamed on closure of Waterford CrystalClosure a sad event for social fabric of WaterfordThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:01
The boat to Inishbofin: across the water to an island state of mindOur Going Coastal series around Ireland’s shores continues by ferry to the Galway islandTue Aug 20 2013 - 01:00
