The programme of 200+ acts extends across 13 stages and venues

From Bloom and Cat Laughs to Táin hillwalks and marine-themed festivals

Dara Ó Briain, Nish Kumar, Rose Matafeo and Jena Friedman also on 25th festival bill

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

After 16 days and 80 productions, festival wraps up with awards in 11 categories

Most riotous gig, most welcome encore, worst performance, best chat, tastiest food

As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month

Capital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatre

The ‘big, sweaty’ Dublin nightclub is successful because it ‘doesn’t have notions’

The Boyle star on his tough-guy role in ‘Get Shorty’ and his county’s referendum journey

Every stage, every band, every slot for this year's festival, which runs from June 22nd - 24th

The Irish street artist’s best-known work has always engaged with social issues

Bloom, Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit, Vantastival, Women’s Mini Marathon and more

Zany or dark? Smart or dumb? Gently reassuring or wickedly disturbing? The festival has it all

Alison Spittle is on a quest to find out exactly what makes a culchie while Lost in Space offers an entirely different sort of quest

Sound Off: Mark O’Connell on life as a Dublin pedestrian

Deirdre O’Kane on homelessness and the refugee crisis and why enough is enough

Voters and Ticket critics come together in a revealingly sloshy meeting of minds

TV3’s Muireann O’Connell reveals her favourite TV show, album, book and restaurant

What’s on: theatre and music and the best TV

It’s hard to think of a show that chimed as much with the moment as ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Hotel resort has spent €3m on capital projects over last few years

Patrick Freyne: TV regularly uses psychological problems to give a character “depth”

Nowhere Fast stars Alison Spittle as Angela, a young woman in a downward spiral

Alison Spittle’s new show; David Simon in NYC; and a doc on the most famous Irish person ever: Shergar

Happy Mondays, Glen Hansard, Dublin Quays Festival and Culture Vultures

Artistic director Kris Nelson unveils his final programme

News was slow to emerge of the Body & Soul festival's first death in eight years

Never mind Beckett or Joyce or Sinéad O’Connor or Love/Hate, these are the things that truly make us Irish

Willie O’Reilly interview: Weak pound alone has dented ad revenues by up to €6m a year

Growing success of women writers a long overdue result of broadcasting’s evolution

Big themes will come to fore as Dee Forbes seeks to break down commissioning ‘silos’

From St Stephen’s Green to Custom House Quay, there’s something for everyone in Dublin and around the country

Author joins Amy Huberman, Alison Spittle and more for Live recording of the Women’s Podcast ‘Funny Women’ at Twitter Dublin

To mark first anniversary of Waking The Feminists, Gender equality campaigners add 10 points to debate

Practitioners of the toughest gig in comedy talk us through the secrets of improv on this week’s Off Topic Podcast

Toxic partnerships behind the mic can be fatal, but rapport is a joy listeners can share

Six Ireland-themed shorts to premiere at Cat Laughs festival

This Easter on The Women’s Podcast, the battle of the eggs, the joy of chocolate and one woman’s account of the Rising

The electorate clicked its heels and didn’t just end up in a tornado but created one