David Puttnam

Miriam Lord’s week: Varadkar set for family Christmas in Mumbai

Taoiseach’s father will celebrate 80th birthday in the land of his birth

Unions to meet RTÉ management over proposed job cuts

Strike action not ruled out as management to be asked specifics of ‘work-practice changes’

RTÉ needs government rescue plan, says Moya Doherty

Chair of broadcaster’s board claims it will struggle to adapt without licence fee rise

Ken Loach: What’s Britain doing owning part of Ireland?

The director who has spent 50 years poking the establishment on Brexit, right-wing broadcasters and the gig economy

Campaigners welcome decision quashing plastics factory in Skibbereen

Save Our Skibbereen group hope US company behind bid will now abandon project

David Puttnam: ‘I feel no sense of identity for the country I grew up in ’

The British filmmaker and Labour peer is deeply troubled by Brexit

All the town’s a screen at the Fastnet Short Film Festival

With screenings on walls and buses, this year’s festival in Schull – its 10th – will include David Puttnam, Jim, Kirsten and Naomi Sheridan, Pat McCabe and Lenny Abrahamson

Private school enrolment returns to boom-time high

Numbers at boarding school also rising, with fees ranging from €8,000 to almost €23,000

Ireland’s most expensive school hopes Brexit bounce will drive enrolment

Nord Anglia to charge up to €24,000 for day pupils at its Leopardstown campus

‘House of Cards’ author to address Cork history festival

Willingness of Michael Dobbs to speak indicates potential of new event, says organiser

Ballymaloe’s LitFest will not be back in 2018

The food festival, which created some great memories last weekend, is taking a one-year break

Going to Ballymaloe Litfest? Here’s your survival guide

Who not to miss, where to eat and drink, and how to get home after a late night in The Big Shed

Ballymaloe Litfest: food for the soul added to the menu

This year’s food and drink extravaganza in Co Cork will be looking at the bigger picture

The science of everyday things

Science Week brings more than 120 events around the country in a celebration of all things scientific

Brexit compromise will avoid hard Border – David Puttnam

British peer and west Cork resident believes EU will not do anything in its Brexit negotiations that would be likely to worsen the Irish economy

EStreet website allows rural traders to sell goods together online

Site provides a digital presence for 11 Skibbereen stores but hopes for a national rollout

Food file: Saba marks Thai festival with five-course banquet

Plus: Clodagh McKenna demonstrates breadmaking; west Cork gears up for its annual food festival; and Italian chef Alberto Magnano gives a pasta masterclass

Ludgate Hub: Bringing Silicon Valley to Skibbereen

1 gigabit broadband set to transform rural connection to global marketplace

David Puttnam says he is ashamed UK voted for Brexit

Leave campaign exploited huge ignorance about EU, says Oscar-winning producer

RTÉ to co-host international audio-visual conference

‘Urgent intervention’ required to preserve the world’s film and sound recordings

Stephen Frears: ‘I’m a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else, I'd hate me'

The director greets questions with a sigh, suffers no fools - and is entirely fascinating

Neil Jordan: ‘Michael Collins was conventional – apart from the guerrilla warfare’

Ahead of the 20th-anniversary re-release of Neil Jordan’s hugely successful film Michael Collins, the director reflects on the ‘unique opportunity’ he got to make it

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