Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring startHighlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the MoonWed Jul 18 2018 - 15:25
The balloon - or rather, the moon - goes up as Galway’s arts festival startsDavid Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonightMon Jul 16 2018 - 13:00
Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolutionIrish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’Sat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Get ready for the Galway International Arts FestivalThis year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughtsThu Jul 12 2018 - 07:00
Dublin Fringe: festival launches a stylish programmeCapital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatreWed Jul 11 2018 - 18:50
Gate Theatre: Number of women directors up from 8% to 80%Huge rise in number of women employed was sparked by Waking the Feminists movementTue Jul 10 2018 - 06:00
‘Stay still in the air’: the flying circus with no safety netAustralian new circus troupe Gravity & Other Myths is coming to Galway International Arts FestivalSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
NCH to take over National Symphony Orchestra from RTÉCabinet opts not to keep NSO within broadcaster or establish it as a separate institutionThu Jul 05 2018 - 15:59
Two spoofers collide: Baron Cohen posts teaser video slagging Trump slagging himVideo ‘trailer’ sees POTUS telling the comedian: ‘Go to school! Learn about being funny’Thu Jul 05 2018 - 14:30
Seamus Heaney exhibition opens at new Dublin cultural centrePoet’s archive at College Green reveals ‘intimacies that defined Seamus the man’Thu Jul 05 2018 - 05:00
How Seamus Heaney wrote: First look at a new exhibitionExhibition on late Nobel laureate unveiled at new College Green cultural centreWed Jul 04 2018 - 16:11
Amybeth McNulty: the Donegal teenager who stars in ‘Anne with an E’The 16-year-old actor on racism, sexuality and bullying, on screen and offWed Jul 04 2018 - 11:17
A happy story for Seamus Heaney dayTwitter reunites long-lost letter from the Nobel Prize winning poet and its ownerWed Jul 04 2018 - 10:58
An actor and a gentleman, with a gift for comedy and living wellObituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’Sat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
Seamus Heaney, our dad the poet, by Catherine, Chris and Mick HeaneyFor his family, choosing 100 poems from a long career, was weighted with memoriesSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
Extension of tax relief urged as Government publishes €200m plan for film industryBlueprint aims to double employment and turnover in audiovisual sector in five yearsWed Jun 27 2018 - 19:05
Minister reaffirms ‘arm’s-length’ approach to arts fundingArts Council chairwoman Sheila Pratschke says it must seek out and support artists of the futureMon Jun 25 2018 - 18:45
‘Ulysses’ as an Underground map: From Kidney Parade to MollydountBoredom led Senan Molony to make a Tube-style map for Dublin through a ‘Ulysses’ prismSat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
An art college day out, sticky lights and a gardening festival in KildareHome Front: What to do and see across Ireland over the next few weeksSat Jun 16 2018 - 00:00
Kurt Cobain’s private possessions to go on display in KildareSmells Like Teen Spirit sweater and Cobain’s early sketches to have worldwide premiere at Kildare museumThu Jun 14 2018 - 13:05
Mike McCormack: ‘A lot of people had faith to stick by me in the difficult years’‘A gifted generation of writers is being fostered by an equally gifted generation of young Irish editors’Wed Jun 13 2018 - 13:43
Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary AwardLatest prize for ‘Solar Bones’ is recognition for Mayo author after years in wildernessWed Jun 13 2018 - 11:50
The silent liver disease epidemicA liver disease associated with diabetes and weight rather than alcohol can be prevented or reversed with diet and exerciseTue Jun 12 2018 - 07:01
Anne with an E returns with Donegal teenager Amybeth McNultyMcNulty leads the darker version of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ from ‘Breaking Bad’ writerMon Jun 11 2018 - 17:12
Good sex scenes: when actors play it safeHow do you safely act having sex? Welcome to Intimacy on Set, the safe sex code for actorsSun Jun 10 2018 - 06:00
Erotic art comes to Tarmonbarry, Co RoscommonA new exhibition in the Shannonside village is ‘sure to attract a lot of attention’Sat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentlemanDublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’Thu Jun 07 2018 - 17:53
The last of the Magdalenes: 'The nuns took my childhood'Now just 40, ‘Jenny’ was one of the last generation to live in Ireland’s Magdalene laundriesSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:55
Adopted man finds his Irish family after DNA test in AmericaKevin Battle was adopted from the Sean Ross Abbey. Years later he has found his siblingsFri Jun 01 2018 - 17:30
Vogue names Irish woman Sinead Burke one of 25 most influentialSinéad Burke joins Meghan Markle, Amal Clooney, Stella McCartney and Orla DohertyThu May 31 2018 - 11:45
Argos goes green . . . but for a house in the garden, try a big red affairHome Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular optionSat May 26 2018 - 06:00
First Look: Hard Rock Cafe Dublin reopens with splash of luxury rock den chicBar-restaurant gets a bunch of new memorabilia including Phil Lynott’s guitar and Cranberries’ lyrics but U2’s Trabant is outWed May 23 2018 - 13:15
Civil liberties group unveils Repeal mural, calls out ‘chilling effect’ of censorshipIrish Council for Civil Liberties says censoring art is ‘highly questionable’ as Cathleen Ní Houlihan meets Rosie the Riveter on a Phibsboro wall to call for repealFri May 18 2018 - 14:39
Paul Muldoon’s ‘Incantata’ on stage at Galway International Arts FestivalTom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020Wed May 16 2018 - 18:19
‘I loved him’: Tributes to Tom MurphyThe late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his workWed May 16 2018 - 15:31
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatreGate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’Mon May 14 2018 - 18:00
First look: Dublin Swift, the new fast ferry to HolyheadThe trip to Wales takes two hours on Irish Ferries’ comfortable, contemporary craftMon May 14 2018 - 11:33
Plan aims to give museums new lease of lifeRarely seen ethnographic exhibits were on display to mark 15-year refurbishment planThu May 10 2018 - 22:07
Richest pop stars and musicians in Ireland and UK revealedU2 rank 3rd richest. Ed Sheeran is second-wealthiest young musician, Niall Horan 4thThu May 10 2018 - 18:10
National Museum to unveil plans for major revampExtensions, updgrades and connections between museum sites part of 15-year visionThu May 10 2018 - 06:00
Buying a piano can be a grand investmentSize, location, maker, condition: key things to look out for when choosing an instrumentSat May 05 2018 - 06:00
Twenty-one things to do this May bank holiday weekendThere is a ton of stuff going on across the country over the next few daysThu May 03 2018 - 20:00
Irish actor Denise Gough nominated for Tony Award for ‘Angels in America’Actor from Ennis almost gave up after 10 years struggling to make it in London, before landing her big breakTue May 01 2018 - 17:37
Repeal book event pulled from festival after arts officer raised questionsDublin City Council says Question of the Eighth event contravened its code of conductTue May 01 2018 - 11:09
The Handmaid’s Tale, season two: ‘It’s darker, much worse’RTÉ2 airs series two of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ tonight, the first channel in Europe to do soThu Apr 26 2018 - 18:42
Hoist The Flag: Long-lost 1916 song by a woman is performed in Collins BarracksA forgotten woman of 1916, a deaf choir and Forever Young singers come together in a celebration of neighbourhood projectsThu Apr 26 2018 - 11:00
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval cityThu Apr 26 2018 - 01:00
RTÉ symphony orchestra should be funded by Government, review saysReport says National Symphony Orchestra should be established as separate cultural institutionMon Apr 23 2018 - 18:21
Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’Sat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00
Back to Castleblayney: Thousands pay last respects to Big TomWake at Oram GFC has been going since noon, and no sign of endingWed Apr 18 2018 - 18:35