Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87

Tackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the Abbey

The three-day conference launches the theatre’s Waking the Nation programme

Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’

Lacking celebrity guests, the RTÉ host goes for the emotions, but his Today FM rival produces stars as well as tears

There is a time for artistic licence – and a time to focus on basics of performing: William Brooks on Yeats, and string quartet masterclasses at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival