Mother and baby home campaigners honoured with Mother Jones award
Cork group attempted to find out burial locations of more than 850 babies
Honour front line staff fighting Covid-19 with job security, says President Higgins
President praises those providing essential services and utilities during pandemic
Drama at Inish gets the ‘funny fixer’ treatment
Cal McCrystal has worked as a comedy adviser – from Paddington to One Man, Two Guvnors – and now comes to Dublin to direct Lennox Robinson’s 1933 play at the Abbey
The Red Iron review: The All Ireland, a suicide, and a group of friends’ lacerated hearts
Jim Nolan’s play is vehemently localised to Waterford, but his achievement is that at its core it is a piece about anywhere
Children’s rights advocate Louise O’Keeffe wins Spirit of Mother Jones Award
O’Keeffe dedicates award to victims of abuse in Irish schools
Campaigner for child sexual abuse victims to be honoured
Louise O’Keeffe to be presented with Spirit of Mother Jones Award in recognition of work
Red Kettle return for a Waterford reunion: This week’s theatre highlights
Hurling and history collide in The Red Iron, the company’s first production since 2014
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Dunnes Stores anti-apartheid strikers honoured with award
Mary Manning and her colleagues praised for their support of human rights
Irish trade unionist honoured with the Spirit of Mother Jones
Ken Fleming challenged the official silence on exploitation of seafarers
Spirit of Mother Jones Award given to UK miner activist
Dave Hopper honoured posthumously in Cork for campaigning for justice in coalfields
Direct provision system to be addressed at Cork festival
Mother Jones Festival to hear from Supreme Court judge Catherine McGuinness
‘Three Sisters’ bid for southeast to be cultural capital in 2020
Waterford, Kilkenny and Wexford join to bid for €170m-funded European capital of culture
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye review: profit versus principles in the newsroom
An overload of stories makes it easy to lose sight of what is important
Fr Peter McVerry given Spirit of Mother Jones Award
Campaigner honoured in Cork for ‘fearless’ refusal to keep homeless issue ‘out of sight’
Reared by the Abbey, empowered by its stage
The theatre’s outreach programme made Shaun Dunne an actor at 11. Now he’s back with his own play
Waterford’s Red Kettle Theatre Co goes into liquidation
Councillor accuses Arts Council of favouring theatre companies in the bigger cities
Wherever I live, I have a bit of Waterford to take with me
You might pass a stretch of Viking wall, an 18th century townhouse and an old Quaker cemetery on your way to buy a pint of milk
Acting up over a prescription for happiness
A Waterford GP has enhanced his talks on wellbeing by turning them into theatrical performances
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