Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers

How he nearly didn’t go for Mamma Mia! and why we need more women on film sets

Italian classical guitarist Oscar Ghiglia pulls no punches when it comes to his students or his peers

Musical distraction from stresses of commuting life installed at busy Dublin platform

The LA dream has quickly become a reality for a young Dublin actor soon to be seen in ‘The Drummer and the Keeper’

The actors occasionally get into physical fights with one another or get knocked unconscious by malfunctioning props

Newpark Music Centre' s respected jazz programme, which offers a rich and broad musical education, will transfer to DCU in September

Former Riverdancer Breandán de Gallaí examines identity, sexuality and ageing in his show Linger

‘It’s not all about money or funding: it’s about honesty, courage, planning, vision and political will’

Limerick is hosting a festival focused on the mixed media of film and movement

British actor Jeremy Irvine got his break early in Spielberg’s War Horse and stars in the moving second-World War drama The Railway Man. He talks to Donald Clarke about trauma, forgiveness – and fame

Survey shows 2012 Winterval boosted Waterford retail sales by 30% in run-up to Christmas

James McAvoy, the Scottish star of Danny Boyle’s new film Trance, reveals why he prefers fish and chips and nights in to glitzy premieres