Saint Etienne, who bring their farewell tour to Dublin next week, have been my glittering soundtrack for growing up and wanting to sail away

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: This Irish-language production hinges on a sweet coming-of-age romance at an embattled coláiste

The Irish star can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to act. There aren’t many downsides to the job, she says

The bestselling Canadian writer returns with a near-future vision of the world – well, two of them

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Dereliction and greed are viewed through a surreal lens in this new show. But can anything top the ‘bizarre stuff’ that’s really happening?

Films cost just €4 at most participating cinemas on Saturday and Sunday, marking a temporary break from ticket inflation

As the country star said before she died, it’s ‘just crazy’ what technology can do

It’s safe to say the rapper’s special rehabilitation operation is on hold

Meg Mason, the author of bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, returns with Sophie, Standing There, a meta novel about a lonely literary-festival worker’s parasocial relationship with a famous writer

Actor was scheduled to star in The Goat Exchange production of Radio Bette in September

Shona McCarthy will need to retain support of an Arts Minister not reluctant to speak his mind

From Athenry to the BBC, sports broadcaster Mulkerrins talks ambition, freelance life and capturing the emotion of sport’s biggest moments

Politicians love them, but the 19th century solution to the problem of monotonous, draining work is surely not the answer today

In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’

New and overlooked authors are competing against several past winners and previously shortlisted writers. They can’t all make it