David Puttnam

London Letter: Filmmaker David Puttnam among those standing up for broadcaster

Taoiseach’s father will celebrate 80th birthday in the land of his birth

Strike action not ruled out as management to be asked specifics of ‘work-practice changes’

Chair of broadcaster’s board claims it will struggle to adapt without licence fee rise

The director who has spent 50 years poking the establishment on Brexit, right-wing broadcasters and the gig economy

Save Our Skibbereen group hope US company behind bid will now abandon project

The British filmmaker and Labour peer is deeply troubled by Brexit

With screenings on walls and buses, this year’s festival in Schull – its 10th – will include David Puttnam, Jim, Kirsten and Naomi Sheridan, Pat McCabe and Lenny Abrahamson

Nord Anglia to charge up to €24,000 for day pupils at its Leopardstown campus

Numbers at boarding school also rising, with fees ranging from €8,000 to almost €23,000

Willingness of Michael Dobbs to speak indicates potential of new event, says organiser

The food festival, which created some great memories last weekend, is taking a one-year break

Who not to miss, where to eat and drink, and how to get home after a late night in The Big Shed

This year’s food and drink extravaganza in Co Cork will be looking at the bigger picture

Science Week brings more than 120 events around the country in a celebration of all things scientific

British peer and west Cork resident believes EU will not do anything in its Brexit negotiations that would be likely to worsen the Irish economy

Site provides a digital presence for 11 Skibbereen stores but hopes for a national rollout

Plus: Clodagh McKenna demonstrates breadmaking; west Cork gears up for its annual food festival; and Italian chef Alberto Magnano gives a pasta masterclass

1 gigabit broadband set to transform rural connection to global marketplace

Leave campaign exploited huge ignorance about EU, says Oscar-winning producer

‘Urgent intervention’ required to preserve the world’s film and sound recordings

The director greets questions with a sigh, suffers no fools - and is entirely fascinating

Ahead of the 20th-anniversary re-release of Neil Jordan’s hugely successful film Michael Collins, the director reflects on the ‘unique opportunity’ he got to make it

Event to look at challenges and opportunities associated with digital technologies

Ireland could become one of the world’s great centres of education. But our schools and colleges are failing a generation, says David Puttnam – film-maker, ‘digital champion’, Labour peer and west Cork resident – who despairs of policymakers’ lack of vision

Review: ‘Recruits’, ‘Garda Down Under’, ‘The Genius of George Boole’; ‘University Challenge’

Minister for Justice addresses annual Béal na Bláth commemoration in West Cork

Worldwide acclaim for unsung UCC mathematician who devised Boolean logic

This double-fronted house on Montpelier Place has an extension with two glass walls overlooking the garden

Dennis Horgan: ‘I feel privileged to see views of Cork that most people only catch a fleeting glimpse of when flying on commercial aircraft’

Not your run-of-the-mill house has 30ft vaulted ceilings and a quarter of an acre of gardens designed by Verney Naylor

Hook says Collins displayed great courage in going to London and signing the Treaty

Film maker David Puttnam says country has just four years to catch up or risk competing with developing countries

Georgian mansion set on nine acres in prime coastal location in west Cork

Martin Cooper expected to advocate for the use of technology in education

We’re watching a massively disruptive evolution impacting every sphere of education, possibly for the first time in 100 years, writes David Puttnam

Oscar-winner has lived at Kilcoe Castle in West Cork since the late 1990s

Ireland is caught behind the curve in digital learning, so can a new centre remedy the situation?

Distinction between entertainment and information ‘becoming too blurred’