Fine Gael leadership: ‘inevitable’ Varadkar victory riles base

Grassroots see party’s new election system as mixed blessing

Gregory Campbell can talk the talk all the way to keeping seat

DUP candidate for East Derry knows the benefits of publicity

Dublin Fringe theatre festival awards announced

‘How to Keep an Alien’ wins best production award

Druid school: the making of a modern playwright

Brian Martin’s first play is about a paedophile priest struggling to suppress his desires. It’s a bit like learning to open up a can of worms with a chainsaw

Chalktalk: news and views in education

Druid Academy takes to the stage at NUI Galway

Students to benefit from Garry Hynes’s “fearsome reputation” as artistic director