Malachy Robinson: The Irish Double Bass review – Strings core to this personal release
Another album from lockdown, Robinson is aided by pianist Gary Beecher
New Music Dublin festival breaks fresh ground
Unusual ambience and myriad external intrusions fails to derail eclectic artistry
The best classical music concerts in Ireland this week
New Music Dublin, Hugh Tinney, RTÉ NSO/Michail Jurowski
Putting Irish-language songs centre stage
The Irish Language Art Song Project: its promotion of Irish music is nonpareil
Irish language project commissions 50 songs from composers at home and abroad
Michael Dervan speaks to six composers about themes of grief, nature and lamentation
The best classical music to see this week
The Irish Language Art Song Project , the next in NSO’s Bruckner series and pianist Simon Trpceski
Miriam Lord’s week: Varadkar set for family Christmas in Mumbai
Taoiseach’s father will celebrate 80th birthday in the land of his birth
NCH’s chamber music series offers flexibility amid closure uncertainty
Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results
Anglo trial shredder seeks answers before agreeing to testify to Oireachtas group
Ex-ODCE adviser wants to know why watchdog did not submit Seán FitzPatrick trial report
Dáil mechanism must be found to release Anglo trial report – TD
Fianna Fáil deputy calls failure to publish report ‘an outrageous affront’ to democracy
Masters tee-times: Rory McIlroy can keep eye on Tiger in opening rounds
McIlroy will play alongside Rickie Fowler and Cameron Smith; Shane Lowry gets early start on Thursday
Full report on Anglo trial collapse may never be made public
State watchdog withdraws offer of report on FitzPatrick trial over legal protection fears
Anglo trial ‘shredder’ agrees to testify before committee
Kevin O’Connell to appear after watchdog’s report reviewed on FitzPatrick trial
Watchdog seeks clarity on legal privilege of Anglo trial collapse report
Corporate enforcer requests privilege from committee before providing 450-page report
Corporate watchdog seeks to cast wider blame for Anglo trial collapse
ODCE chief to say factors extending ‘well beyond’ watchdog contributed to acquittal
Brexit cloud brings a silver lining to Dublin
Business week: Bertie Ahern tells it like it is, property prices, and Anglo Irish Bank
Investigator who tore up Anglo files has 'unaired' information
Kevin O’Connell asks for public hearing in 10-page letter to Oireachtas committee
Composer Siobhán Cleary opens Arts Council can of worms
Council scheme is set up in a way that cannot deal with idea of ‘equal pay for equal work’
Blurring the lines between speaking and singing
The spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long history
No order from DPP to resume inquiry into Anglo auditors
Criticisms of EY audit ‘incompetence’ disclosed at FitzPatrick trial in absence of jury
ODCE paid €300,000 to experts in FitzPatrick trial
Judge ruled audit specialist could not give testimony as proposed evidence ‘irrelevant’
Seán FitzPatrick case one of State’s most cack-handed trials
Business Week: Housing crisis, Setanta Insurance, Ryanair and Budget 2018
Don’t scapegoat ODCE for collapse of FitzPatrick trial
Niamh Brennan: Key agency has underpaid, unsuitable staff
Seán FitzPatrick acquittal raises questions for key State agencies
Significant number of issues emerge for those linked to ‘biased’ and ‘partisan’ inquiry
FitzPatrick trial undermined by evidential flaws
A biased investigation into the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman led to acquittal
State agency under pressure over Seán FitzPatrick inquiry
Judge found the ODCE set out to ‘construct a case’ against the former Anglo chairman
Seán FitzPatrick trial: a trail of blunders
Profound questions about how the case was investigated and prosecuted
The banker, the investigator and the shredding of documents
Kevin O’Connell’s destruction of paperwork played role in Seán FitzPatrick’s acquittal
No criminal inquiry into shredding of files in Seán FitzPatrick case
Counsel for ex-Anglo boss said solicitor not investigated as he was ‘too important to the State’
Shredding played key role in downfall of FitzPatrick inquiry
Legal adviser ‘taken aback’ by Garda Commissioner’s note about witness statements
Alternative Oscars: and the award for Grumpiest Loser goes to . . .
Donald Clarke on the best, worst and most awkward moments of the 89th Academy Awards
Anglo auditor denies engaging in ‘performance theatre’
Kieran Kelly denies he was trying to ‘buy time’ by asking to examine documents
State investigator destroyed files in Seán FitzPatrick case
Jury shown footage of ‘panicked’ legal advisor shredding documents
Seán FitzPatrick investigator shredded documents, court hears
ODCE solicitor tells trial he made a ‘calamitous error’ by destroying files
Seán FitzPatrick: Corporate case handling changed after 2015 trial
Current trial of ex-Anglo chairman hears ODCE inquiries now always involve gardaí
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