Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda: An opera with a troubled history returns
Irish National Opera’s production is first full staging with chorus, orchestra in Ireland
Woman jailed for child neglect at Cork Circuit Criminal Court
Defendant pleaded guilty to wilfully ill-treating and neglecting child and allowing her to be assaulted
Man died from knife wounds to the head and body, pathologist tells trial
Helen Jones (53) and Keith O’Hara (43) deny murdering Paul Jones (55) in Cork
Elsewhere: Agitprop opera combines the serious and the comic
Michael Gallen’s polyglot minimalist music captures energy of historic Monaghan strike
The Monaghan Soviet: How the people took over the asylum
Michael Gallen on the event in his home county that inspired a new opera at the Abbey Theatre
Former scout leader (72) jailed for five years for sexual assault
David Barry plied teenage victims with alcohol before sexually assaulting them, court hears
Former scout master pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 10 boys
David Barry pleads guilty to a total of 29 charges of indecent or sexual assault on boys
Three Irish opera projects shortlisted for prestigious European prize
Michael Gallen’s Straymaker, Wexford Festival Opera and Irish National Opera make list
Firm fined €80,000 over work accident that led to leg amputation
Casual worker lost his limb after his leg became trapped beneath an excavator track
Teenager (17) pleads guilty to dangerous driving causing death of girl (16)
Deceased was a front seat passenger in car that crashed outside her house in Cork city
Man jailed for harassment campaign including threats to rape woman and daughter
James Steele (52) caught with crowbar, rope and duct tape attempting to break into victim’s Cork home
Man jailed for stealing life savings of pensioner in tax scam
Patrick O’Donnell (21) pleads guilty to 10 counts of theft in ‘vicious and wicked crime’
Cork man appeals conviction for the murder of his girlfriend
Darren Murphy admitted manslaughter of Olivia Dunlea in Passage West in 2013
What is it that opera traditionalists want exactly?
It has become clear over the years that whatever it is they like, they call it traditional
Dorilla in Tempe review: A good-looking but unbalanced production
Wexford Festival Opera: An oversized orchestra too often compromises solo voices
Griselda review: Pantomime vibe intrudes on some triumphant moments
Irish National Opera’s production features superb singing, but a brave effort to modernise the story isn’t a total success
The week’s best classical and opera: Griselda to ConTempo Quartet
London Mozart Players concert mixes works from the 18th and early 20th centuries
The best classical music and opera to see this week
RTÉ NSO chief conductor Jaime Martín opens his reign in style; Katie Bray is Griselda
The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia review: Returning emigrant dissects his home in sprawling style
Dublin Theatre Festival: Ray Scannell’s ambitious musical drama is performed with aplomb but lacks focus
The Hunger review: An opera let down by its musical material
The composer Donnacha Dennehy struggles to convey the horrors of the Great Famine
The Hunger: A mixed-media opera about the Famine
Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Witness tells Fermoy murder trial of seeing two men being beaten
Marcin Skrzypezyk and Tomasz Wasowicz deny murdering Ludovit Pasztor at filling station
Victim and friend brought iron bars to ‘scare’ murder accused
Two truck drivers charged with murder of Ludovit Pasztor at petrol station in Co Cork
Director’s Choice: Theatre directors pick the soundtracks of their lives
Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces
From dying in the mud of Game of Thrones to the whatness of existence
Barry McGovern’s solo-show adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Watt is returning to the stage
Sure Look It, Fuck It review: Clare Dunne soars in grungy ode to Dublin and home
The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School
Sure Look It, Fuck It: A day in the life of a returning emigrant
‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’
Man jailed over €440,000 worth of cannabis found hidden in radiators
Noel Motherway tells judge he had ‘no equity’ in haul and was trying to pay off a drug debt
Nicola Collins’s family says ‘excruciating’ trial was ‘second ordeal’
Relatives of Cork murder victim speak of relief at Cathal O’Sullivan’s conviction
Review: I am Tonie Walsh. What is a club DJ if not a keeper of records?
Walsh chronicles several turbulent decades of progress and setbacks in his solo show
Woman beaten to death in row during drinking session, trial hears
Cathal O’Sullivan denies murdering Nicola Collins (38) at his rented flat in Cork last year
Former Naval Service member jailed for two years for drug offences
Accused pleads guilty to possessing 14kg of cannabis
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