Austrian investor pays €15m for famed Dundalk hotel

Thomas Röggla adds Ballymascanlon House Hotel to portfolio of four and five star venues

Homeless in lockdown: ‘I sat today on O’Connell Street and just cried’

Being homeless during the pandemic has meant increased isolation and loneliness

A tenor on a horse – An Irishman’s Diary on the equestrian ambitions of Luciano Pavarotti

Italia 90: An immense escapade that left an indelible memory

The whole trip to Sardinia was like being beamed up and down in Star Trek

Fintan O’Toole: Bono at 60 – Why is Ireland so ambivalent about its most famous son?

He is a truly global celebrity but we might like him more if he did not try to be so good

Placido Domingo apologises after sexual harassment claims

The Spanish opera singer is facing multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour

Placido Domingo drops out of Met Opera amid sexual misconduct accusations

More than 30 performers, teachers and backstage staff make claims over behaviour

Pavarotti documentary: Needless to say, Bono turns up

Review: His earthy storytelling helps counteract the general blandness of this film

Ron Howard: ‘Bono said Pavarotti was an emotional arm wrestler – he’d break your f**king arm’

The director on telling Pavarotti’s larger-than-life story, making movies that last and looking for stories to share

Ryan Tubridy brings a whole new meaning to ‘summer nonsense’

He hits the right note for early silly season. At his best he is entertaining on-air company

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

Classical music development has lagged behind since foundation of State

Classical music has not been documented the way it is in other European countries

Look what they’ve done to your songs, Ed, Mick, Bruce and Adele

No track is safe from appropriation by political campaigns

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Miriam Lord: Dolores O’Riordan send-off not so much a funeral as an enfolding

She may have been globally famous, but in Limerick she was one of the O’Riordans