New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm

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Second Wind – Frank McNally on a weather-delayed world premiere

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Orchestra funding should be ringfenced at RTE, says Martin

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Differing responses to political unrest

A quarter century after Tiananmen Square, China has made huge economic – not political – progress

On the anniversary of June 1989, the Communist Party is still silencing debate