Kilkenny Arts Festival review: Depth of writing is unmatched by the music in this Savita Halappanavar opera
Theatre: In Custom of the Coast the singers have presence. The stories feel relevant. So why is it problematic?
Savita Halappanavar
From Savita Halappanavar to Anne Bonny: Damning indictment of the treatment of women through the ages shows its always been this way
Paul Muldoon and Kamala Sankaram’s new opera Custom of the Coast gives voice to Halappanavar and Bonny in powerful narratives that run alongside each other, until they collide unexpected ways
Scannal: Savita review – Heartbreaking chronicle of the medieval essence at heart of Irish healthcare system
Television: Sensitive and wrenching documentary series recounts the death of Savita Halappanavar after she suffered a miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancy
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week, beginning tonight
December 1st-6th: including The Late Late Toy Show, Renaissance - The Blood and the Beauty, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Kitty Holland wins defamation case against John Waters and is awarded €35,000 in damages
Waters launched ‘serious attack’ on Holland’s integrity in comments about Savita Halappanavar report, judge says
John Waters cannot ‘go around defaming people’, hearing told
Judgment reserved in case where Kitty Holland of The Irish Times is suing over comments made in 2017
John Waters claims he faces ‘ruination’ should he lose defamation action taken by Kitty Holland
Circuit Civil Court hears Waters has taken 12 defamation cases but has never sued a journalist directly
Report in The Irish Times initiated ‘lie’ about death of Savita Halappanavar, court told
John Waters being sued by journalist Kitty Holland over remarks at political event in 2017 which Holland says meant she was not fit to be a journalist
Kitty Holland tells judge that John Waters’s letter was ‘quite the assault on me and The Irish Times’
100-page letter sent by Mr Waters to Ms Holland’s solicitors after she initiated defamation case
Whose needs would a Progressive Democrats 2.0 serve?
In much of the commentary following the recent referendums, the phrase 'enough is enough' was often heard – the implication being that great numbers of people have made enough huge sacrifices by voting for compassion and understanding but that’s all over now
Simon Harris: The five career moves that led him to the taoiseach’s office
The Fine Gael politician has scraped through tight corners in politics to become taoiseach-designate
Maureen Dowd: I remember having a flash of gratitude that I lived in the US and not Ireland
Religious fanatics on the supreme court have yanked the United States back to back alleys
Thousands protest against Poland’s restrictive abortion laws after pregnant woman dies in hospital
Dorota Lalik (33), who was five months pregnant, died of septic shock in a case that echoes that of Savita Halappanavar
Post-it notes left at a ‘shrine’ to Savita Halappanavar photographed and archived
About 1,200 small notes were posted around a mural of Ms Halappanavar on hoarding by the Bernard Shaw pub in Portobello in the days after the referendum
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