11 of the best places to go food shopping in Cork

Grocers and delis, both new and long-established, where you can buy great food locally

The Trials of Tenducci, A Castrato in Ireland – exploring musical connections

Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra evoke Dublin in the 1700s

The Trials of Tenducci: National Gallery concert celebrates 18th century castrato

Tenducci’s career and notoriety flourished in England and Ireland

What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music

Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes

‘Towards 2022’ programme symptomatic of orchestra’s lazy thinking

NSO sub-season duplicates previous efforts and focuses too much on British connections

Thomas Zehetmair and William Howard: the best classical music concerts this week

Italian pianist Alessandro Taverna performs as part of the latest programme in the NCH’s Towards 2022 mini-series

How one west Cork town is going it alone on rural broadband

Skibbereen benefits from first rural digital hub offering fastest broadband speeds in the country

A sequence of visions of Chopin

It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov

The best classical music this week: Daniil Trifonov makes NCH debut

RTÉ Contempo Quartet play Beethoven while Peter Whelan directs Irish Baroque Orchestra performance of Handel’s Messiah

Suspended UL employees raised concerns about expenses

Dáil committee questions senior University of Limerick personnel over accounts

Michael McHale, RTÉ NSO/Courtney Lewis - Irish Piano Concertos album review

Ludgate Hub: Bringing Silicon Valley to Skibbereen

1 gigabit broadband set to transform rural connection to global marketplace

Footfalls and phonecalls – An Irishman’s Diary about a night at the National Concert Hall

Imagining Ireland makes a stunning break for Europe

The NCH’s centenary celebrations continue with a night of high calibre one-off performances