Title sponsor Diageo made decision, says festival chair

‘Memory Man may be dead but his memory will live forever,’ says Fr Brian D’Arcy

Footballer rubbishes ‘brand Beckham’ claims during appearance on Desert Island Discs special

The average sleep cycle is 80-90 minutes and the average person has five each night

Event started in 1978 as a last-minute replacement for cancelled bridge tournament

Guitarist Larry Correll and New Orleans drummer Jason Marsalis among highlights

What we have to endure from ill-informed foreigners is tantamount to a hate crime in today’s language

On the hottest day of the summer, here’s a hot countdown of 10 sultry classics

Gardot began writing songs as therapy after a serious accident left her with memory and speech problems

Teachers say both the higher- and ordinary-level papers were ‘very fair’

Lindsey Holmes’s house in Sandymount in Dublin contains a mixture of modern and old, bargain finds and antiquities

Mark Zuckerberg is creating a robot butler and I’m giving up superheroes

Among the three or so plays struggling to get out, an interesting human story is lost

It’s been a busy summer for Fionn Davenport, as he criss-crossed the United States. Here are three of his favourite cities to visit

I discovered many of Weill’s works by following the trail of his tremulous-toned wife

“Cork was the first in Ireland to book Chic at a concert. Tonight we came back and it was spectacular”

Dublin had already hosted JFK in 1963, but nothing prepared the city for the arrival of four mop-top lads from Liverpool – and the riots and hysteria that followed

Punters buying Wizard of Oz track in droves after divisive former British leader’s passing