With productions shuttered, theatre has to break new ground to reach audiences

Agency granted support to the World Actors Forum amid concerns it was not ‘prudent’

The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threats

Family of writer, famous for ‘Angela’s Ashes’, arrives in Limerick to honour his dying wish

Defender won four All-Irelands with Cork and won Railway Cup medals with Munster

There are few bumps in the road during this warm but slight journey

The playwright’s new production Wild Sky eschews the grand Dublin narrative for a rural perspective on 1916

Total of 38 candidates vying for just 19 seats

Sheila Pratschke succeeds Pat Moylan as chair of council

The Arts Council insists that transparency is important, but it’s sadly lacking in its funding decisions

Having finished as chair of the Arts Council after five years, Moylan answers criticism of the funding process, says the council has no role to play in Limerick and looks forward to producing theatre again

Laureate for Irish Fiction will get sum over three-year term

Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person