Man who twice raped schoolgirl at his sister’s 18th birthday party loses jail term appeal
Richard O’Mara (33) convicted and sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment
The best classical music and opera to see this week
Beethoven’s Fidelio and New Music Dublin both come to the National Concert Hall
The best classical music concerts happening this week
Beethoven celebration gets under way while Sounding the Feminists series continues at NCH
Louth and clear: a maverick’s musical adventures in Dundalk
Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Louth music: Eamonn Quinn ‘first backstage laureate’ of Belmont Prize
Founder of Louth Contemporary Music Society singled due to ‘burning passion for contemporary music’
The new director of New Music Dublin has his work cut out for him
The experience of the festival has been like that of a child of warring parents
Angry and articulate, dance made big, bold statements in 2016
Culture review 2016: In a year of State-sanctioned Rising celebrations, dance gave strong alternative views
Dublin has never had the contemporary music festival it deserves
New Music Dublin has suffered numerous abuses in its short life and has been postponed for 2016. Can it be fixed?
What? . . . Wow: not much new about David Lang’s festival of minimalism
Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom
David Lang: ‘Minimalism existed for about a minute ’
In curating the What? . . . Wow festival, Lang is examining the legacy of his neighbourhood, and the 1960s New York scene that gave the world minimalism
Some new year resolutions the NCH and RTÉ should consider
The NCH needs to give greater prominence to the music in its promotion and RTÉ needs to be braver about new music
Westport’s awake to the sounds of chamber music
It’s easy to compare the approaches of different instrumentalists at Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival
The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City
Stradivari unstrung? New violins fare better in blind test
A study nails the myth of the yawning gap between present instruments and those of the great masters
Paul Hillier’s ‘weird and wonderful’ blueprint for Chamber Choir Ireland
Playing it safe doesn’t get you anywhere, says the choir’s artistic director – audiences prefer a cutting edge
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