The Irish woman seeking out freedom in world’s ‘second most dangerous sport’Claire Walsh can hold her breath underwater for five minutes 59 seconds and dives to a depth of 60mSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Our Tethered Kin review: A beautifully staged, beautifully performed fairy tale for adultsTheatre: The story arc of this BrokenCrow production personifies a battle between dark and light, bad and goodFri Feb 10 2023 - 13:23
Iveagh Markets: Council seeks State help to preserve roof as dispute mediation failsEdward Guinness welcomes Dublin City Council move but condition of building continues to worsenThu Feb 02 2023 - 14:38
First Look: Royal Irish Academy of Music unveils €25m addition to its Georgian Dublin homeThe seven-year redesign ‘packs a lot into a city-centre site and gears us up for the future’, says the national conservatoire’s directorThu Feb 02 2023 - 05:00
St Brigid’s Day: Events celebrating our matron saint and Irish women around Ireland and the worldFrom Kildare to Dublin and London to Vancouver, there will be concerts, talks, light shows and so much moreWed Feb 01 2023 - 13:36
A town divided: What’s going on at Listowel Writers’ Week?Sadness and anger from some committee members at being ‘very arbitrarily dismissed’, while others say some volunteers ‘deemed more important than others’Sat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
Dún Laoghaire Baths hit by accessibility problem weeks after €18m complex opensWheelchair users complain they’re unable to use steep ramps at the redeveloped seaside amenityFri Jan 20 2023 - 06:01
A handy guide to 99 of the best Irish festivals in 2023Cultural festivals are back in full force this year - and this guide doesn’t even include all of themSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Ian McKellen: From Gandalf to goose“When you’ve played the Widow Twanky, can Mother Goose be far behind?” The Lord of the Rings star talks his next role as Mother Goose, preternatural occurrences in Ireland, making it up as he goes along, and men wearing frocksSat Dec 17 2022 - 05:00
Dún Laoghaire Baths finally reopen: ‘We’re here courtesy of people power’The great and the good of the borough – councillors, TDs, local businesses, community representatives – came out in weatherproof finery and thermals to mark the cutting of the ribbonTue Dec 13 2022 - 16:55
‘Once in a generation’ redevelopment of National Concert Hall to go for planningLargest ever revamp of a national cultural institution expected to proceed next year after being delayed by pandemicThu Dec 08 2022 - 15:45
First Look: Dún Laoghaire Baths are finally set to reopen. It’s a breathtaking sightAfter years of dereliction, then a seemingly never-ending build, the outdoor areas of the Co Dublin town’s renovated baths are due on December 13thFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:30
Campaign for service charges to be shared fairly reaches a tipping pointFrom Thursday diners should be able to see how tips are distributed to staffTue Nov 29 2022 - 09:45
The Iveagh Markets: Can a former Dublin glory be saved?After 25 years of vacancy and claims of neglect, the future of Edward Cecil Guinness’s gift to the city in 1906 hangs in the balanceSat Nov 19 2022 - 06:00
Tang of urine and spicy pig’s blood: A virtual-reality Ulysses lets you inhale the smells of Joyce’s DublinFor CoisCéim’s Go to Blazes, part of Ulysses 2.2, the dancer and scent-maker Justine Cooper is creating aromas to evoke part of James Joyce’s masterpieceTue Nov 08 2022 - 06:00
Abbey Theatre: The directors, the disclosures, the drama, the moneyDocuments shed new light on controversial payments made to the Abbey’s former co-directorsSat Nov 05 2022 - 08:00
Deansgrange Cemetery cycle path: ‘It could reimagine a very depressing place’Plans to upgrade an existing path inside the cemetery are concerning some bereaved familiesSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
The Realistic Joneses review: What’s it all about?Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Gare St Lazare’s production of Will Eno’s inscrutable play has echoes of Beckett in Florida suburbiaMon Oct 10 2022 - 12:46
Lolling review: Absorbing, depressing, moving, pulsating Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: This take on Ulysses portrays young men lolled by compulsive, self-destructive, addictive inadequacyMon Oct 10 2022 - 11:44
No Magic Pill review: A gutsy play that doesn’t make nice about disability Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The fight for normal life for ‘poor unfortunate gobshites’Thu Oct 06 2022 - 16:20
‘Brave people who spoke out’ about bullying in Irish arts sector praised as new supports launched Following revelations of widespread harmful workplace behaviour in the arts, Safe to Create aims to combat it with resources, training, counselling and legal supportWed Oct 05 2022 - 18:40
John Creedon: ‘I’ve had so many lives ... work has been my university’The broadcaster talks about places, people, the human condition, and his new folklore bookSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:00
The Blackwater Lightship review: Colm Tóibín’s novel becomes an emotionally engaging, meaty, humorous play Dublin Theatre Festival: The terrific ensemble create strong, believable, well-rounded characters in this intense, intimate taleFri Sept 30 2022 - 11:48
Dinner With Groucho review: Frank McGuinness’s new play is a surreal, smart and funny reinvention of an odd pairingDublin Theatre Festival review: This reimagined meeting between Groucho Marx and TS Eliot is delivered with breakneck speed, comic timing and subtletyThu Sept 29 2022 - 08:00
New TG4 Irish language children’s TV channel to be launched with funding from budget increaseMinister maintains Arts Council funding at €130m and prioritises developing night-time economy and artists’ studiosWed Sept 28 2022 - 21:18
Abbey Theatre tenders for review of its governance and policies as condition of its fundingState subsidy of €7.5 million remains at the same level as last year and has several conditions attachedWed Sept 28 2022 - 19:29
Blackwater Lightship: ‘The past still has an effect on us in the present’Colm Tóibín’s novel The Blackwater Lightship is coming to the stage with its tale of impending death and three generations trapped in a houseSat Sept 24 2022 - 05:00
Arts sector confident in run-up to budget, but still not taking anything for grantedNational Campaign for the Arts chairwoman says Minister is ‘on the same page as us’ with regards to fundingFri Sept 23 2022 - 17:04
Kitchensinkdrama review: A talking, assertive, nosy fox intervenes during dead-of-night distressDublin Fringe Festival 2022: For a play that deals with insomnia, depression and trauma, Brian Bennett’s piece has a great quirkiness and moments of levityFri Sept 23 2022 - 14:21
Anatomy of a Night review: Joyous, sexy, infectious, seductiveDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Nick Nikolaou creates his characters through an energising, skillful, perfectly observed range of club dance stylesThu Sept 22 2022 - 13:40
Push to set up reporting agency for harmful workplace behaviour in artsStricter public funding regimes with anti-harassment prerequisites recommended by committee reportWed Sept 21 2022 - 20:17
Culture Night 2022: Here are 25 things to see and do this FridayThere are more than 1,000 events across Ireland, all free, on the artiest night of the yearMon Sept 19 2022 - 05:00
Frigid review: The innocence, discovery, bullying and mortification of an Irish teen disco Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Rosa Bowden’s 50-minute nugget is bang-on about the world of Irish pubertyFri Sept 16 2022 - 11:40
Patricia Burke Brogan, whose play exposed brutality of Magdalene laundries, has died aged 90The novice left the convent and wrote about what she had witnessed. She ‘changed everything’Wed Sept 07 2022 - 11:44
Booker Prize 2022: Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These shortlisted‘Measured and merciless’ Irish novel about a Magdalene laundry is among the final six contenders for the prestigious awardTue Sept 06 2022 - 19:30
Hot Brown Honey: Celebrating women of colour in Ireland with humour and ‘joyous rage’ The `Dublin chapter’ of the Australian music and dance troupe are performing in the Fringe Festival show Hive City LegacySat Sept 03 2022 - 05:00
South Pacific is a strong antiracist musical wrapped in delicious show tunesDon’t underestimate the sophistication and political savoir-faire of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musicalSat Aug 27 2022 - 05:00
Síbín comes to Galway: ‘It’s one thing inside another inside another’Turner Prize-winning installation created by Belfast collective Array sets up shop in the westTue Aug 23 2022 - 05:00
The flea markets ‘bringing the magic back’ to Dublin cityIn the absence of the authorities leading the way, small markets for eager hagglers are emerging organicallySat Aug 20 2022 - 08:00
Druid’s The Last Return by Sonya Kelly wins award at Edinburgh FringeFringe First Award for play about conflict, peace and the pursuit of territory at any cost follows rave reviewsFri Aug 12 2022 - 12:18
Press Up’s new Dean studios offers much-needed workspaces for Dublin artistsMove seems like a genuine commitment from the hospitality group to improving the cityTue Aug 09 2022 - 06:00
Abbey Theatre chair Dr Frances Ruane reappointed for two more yearsDr Ruane brings ‘essential experience and knowledge’ after Arts Council concern at some governance and finance issuesThu Aug 04 2022 - 14:14
Booker Prize 2022: Two Irish novelists longlisted alongside youngest and oldest ever nomineesSix-strong shortlist to be announced on September 6th, with the winner named on October 17thTue Jul 26 2022 - 15:00
Moments from a festival: Galway wraps with a new way of bringing it back HomeGeoff Sobelle’s show one of the many highlights of this year’s vibrant, audience-engaging festivalMon Jul 25 2022 - 18:13
Galway is hot and hopping as the international arts festival returns with a bangAfter two years of restricted programmes, there’s a real sense of the festival’s proud presence on the streetsTue Jul 19 2022 - 12:34
Bog villages after peat production ended: ‘What grew afterwards was amazing: the wildlife, the biodiversity’ 'People came from different parts of the country to work for Bord na Mona. They knitted together, and became standalone communities, and friends for life’Sat Jul 16 2022 - 05:00
Alan Stanford asked to step aside from post at Pittsburgh theatreActor, writer and director reportedly removed from position as artistic and executive director after board meetingWed Jul 13 2022 - 00:15
Back to the regular rhythm of a Kilkenny Arts Festival, with some ‘gateway drugs’ to open it upFestival director Olga Barry, announcing 2022′s line-up, talks about how the festival is of the city, as well as using it as a canvasThu Jun 23 2022 - 09:00
Abbey Theatre’s €7.5m funding for 2022 comes with conditions attachedArts Council says it is seeking to safeguard expenditure of public moniesTue Jun 14 2022 - 15:13
Strokestown House home to time capsule of the Great Hunger: The National Famine Museum reopens Visitors get a three-pronged window into the lives of those who lived and worked thereSat Jun 11 2022 - 06:00
