As July draws to a close, and dare we say it, the end of summer is on the horizon, it is high time to get planning to make sure that…

The Punchestown Music Festival returns this summer with a two-day line-up featuring Tom Jones and Jess Glynne, on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 July. This year’s festival has a decidedly…

Leonard Cohen, the Canadian poet and novelist who abandoned a promising literary career to become one of the foremost songwriters of the contemporary era, died on Monday at his home…

Edward Albee, widely considered the foremost American playwright of his generation, whose psychologically astute and piercing dramas explored the contentiousness of intimacy, the gap between self-delusion and truth and the…

  Councils in Limerick, Galway, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford  will be busy in the weeks ahead finalising their bids to be European Capital of Culture in 2020. Final bids will be…

You may have seen them buzzing over Dublin city last Tuesday. As part of the 1916 commemorations, the Irish Air Corps were out photographing the city, and what they finished…