Electric Picnic 2018: Highs and lows of the festival

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

All the town’s a screen at the Fastnet Short Film Festival

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

Stephen James Smith: On My Culture Radar

The poet and playwright on ‘The Young Offenders’, Ruth Negga and Galway

How to get the most out of a winter city break

Conor Pope asks readers for their best travel tips

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The Drummer and the Keeper review: airy, funny, optimistic and honest

Nick Kelly’s deft film details the friendship between a bipolar rock musician and a teenager with Asperger syndrome

Former Fat Lady Sings frontman’s first film draws on mental health issues

Nick Kelly: from plectrum to spectrum, between rock and a hard place

‘It’s moments where I’m like, this is happening, Jacob’

The LA dream has quickly become a reality for a young Dublin actor soon to be seen in ‘The Drummer and the Keeper’

Electric Picnic: stage times for the Electric Arena, Cosby, Mindfield and Theatre of Food

Here’s the second tranche of stage times for the Stradbally festival

The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh

Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film

Galway Film Fleadh will premiere ‘Dunkirk’ and Maze escape feature

The 29th festival will close with a rare original feature project from Colm Toíbín

Alien Envoy Loads

NFL Players Association files appeal on behalf of Ray Rice

Baltimore Ravens running back was banned after a February video went public showing him punching his fiancee in the face