MusicDave Douglas - Brazen Heart: Live at the Jazz Standard: Four nights, eight hours, one fine trumpeterBy Cormac Larkin
MusicCarl Nielsen/Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Maskarade: Definitive opera HHHHBy Colman Morrissey
An Irish DiaryAn Irishman’s Diary about James W Upton, the forgotten journalist of 1916By Tony Keating
EnvironmentKenny rejects criticism of slow flood responseBy Harry McGee, Ciarán D'Arcy and Conor Kane
TV & RadioRadio review: Peter Sutherland’s secular sermon sits uneasily with his high-flying historyBy Mick Heaney
TV & RadioTelevision review: What the Dickens? Agatha Christie classic steals the Christmas showBy Catherine Conroy
An Irish DiaryIRB votes to fight at ‘earliest date’; those who perished are honoured in DublinBy Patrick Smyth
AbroadMore money. More renting. More homelessness: Emigrants on Christmas in IrelandBy Ciara Kenny and Aoife Valentine
IrelandRoad deaths in 2015 are second lowest in over half centuryBy Elaine Edwards and Gerry Moriarty