Apprentice film-studio electrician to go on trial accused of attempted murder

Martin Cunningham (27) is also charged with assaulting a man and producing a machete

Dead Heat – An Irishman’s Diary on the high-speed funerals of old Dublin

Anthony Burgess on James Joyce: the lost introduction

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time