When mainstream theatre closed, the avant-garde got busy

With productions shuttered, theatre has to break new ground to reach audiences

Michael Colgan event given Arts Council funds despite warnings

Agency granted support to the World Actors Forum amid concerns it was not ‘prudent’

Angela’s Ashes: The Musical – Are we ready to look back on hard times and smile?

The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threats

Frank McCourt’s last wish granted as ashes are scattered

Family of writer, famous for ‘Angela’s Ashes’, arrives in Limerick to honour his dying wish

John Horgan one of greatest hurlers of all time, funeral told

Defender won four All-Irelands with Cork and won Railway Cup medals with Munster

Driving Miss Daisy review: a nostalgic look at the good old, bad old days

There are few bumps in the road during this warm but slight journey

Deirdre Kinahan: ‘The Rising is not just a Dublin story’

The playwright’s new production Wild Sky eschews the grand Dublin narrative for a rural perspective on 1916

Offaly profile: Tight race after abolition of three town councils

Total of 38 candidates vying for just 19 seats

Arts Council appoints new chair and board members

Sheila Pratschke succeeds Pat Moylan as chair of council

The strange figures and empty chairs of the Arts Council

The Arts Council insists that transparency is important, but it’s sadly lacking in its funding decisions

Heading for a cultural desert

Pat Moylan: ‘If we cut the arts, we’re really cutting ourselves’

Having finished as chair of the Arts Council after five years, Moylan answers criticism of the funding process, says the council has no role to play in Limerick and looks forward to producing theatre again

New award honouring Irish writers worth €150,000

Laureate for Irish Fiction will get sum over three-year term

Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death

Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person