Is it a blessing or a curse to share a name with the patron saint of love? We asked some Vals

In the How Music Works series, Niall Byrne talks to people about their work in music. This week, Conor Wilson, booker with the Westport Arts Festival

The French captial remains the perfect city to stir the senses and whet the appetite

If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation

YouTubers have followers in the millions but rarely appear on traditional media’s radar

Manchester will test prolific striker Gabriel Jesus’s ability to deliver on big stage

The loss to Ireland in Chicago a mere blip on New Zealand ace hooker’s winning streak

Offence is in the eye of the beholder, but Irish theatre has a robust reputation for pushing boundaries, and many theatres and companies have suffered for their artistic freedom

Don’t think that to be a real artist you have to burn out, a dying star, like Van Gogh or Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe or Amy Winehouse. The joy of creativity lies in each of the tiny, repetitive, sometimes dull steps of daily life as an artist, dancer or writer

Scottish fishing boat sank quickly in heavy seas some 90 miles south of Mizen Head

Black Panther sympathies in white suburban Ireland, affinities with Tupac and Jim Morrison, and painful attempts to woo girls with overwrought letters: when it comes to re-reading my adolescent diaries, there’s nowhere to hide

Blending the best qualities of Irish and Polish theatre