What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire

‘If I love a book, I want to own a print version of it. My (huge) collection is like a physical manifestation of what furnishes my brain’

Sean O’Rourke still has a newsreadery tendency on his RTÉ show – but his colleague John Murray made a poignantly light return to the airwaves this week

RTÉ is “cognisant” of online listenership, but makes programmes for FM audience

A new edition of the republican leader’s dramas casts a fresh light on him – and on the Revival

Line-up includes new plays by Frank McGuinness and Eugene O’Neill, and a fresh translation of The Threepenny Opera