There's still time to enjoy some of the activities of ScΘalta Shamhna 2001, the festival of storytelling going on at five Dublin venues this month. Artists from Israel, the United States and Jamaica join home-grown story-tellers Ronnie Drew, Nuala Hayes and Ellen Cranitch.

Programmes are available from Dra∅ocht, Blancharstown, Dublin, which is running the festival along with the National Museum (tel: (01) 885 2622/677 744/872 2707; e-mail: scealtashamhna@eircom.net).