Just what is student life like in and around our main third-level campuses?

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Festival Director John Fitzpatrick marks 50 years involvement

Cork man wins award for his work in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Life on campus: here is what the country’s IoTs have to offer

Legal tender coin with €15 face value to be sold at €60 each as only 3,000 copies being minted

Technologies include sepsis test and navigation system for disabled people

Darragh Morgan is a classical solo violinist born in Belfast now living in London

A sample of courses from Ireland’s universities, ITs and smaller colleges

Waltons music shop in the city centre is to shut its doors amid soaring rental prices

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Kaspars Putninš, The Vanbrugh, RTÉ NSO/Harry Bicket

ITs around the country offer a diverse range of course options for students

Politician turned down a State funeral and requested ‘no speeches, no nonsense’, mourners told

The actor will take over from Peter Capaldi as the 13th reincarnation of the Time Lord

Obituary: Children’s TV presenter’s catchphrase on the show was ‘get down, Shep’

Architect turned musician Eoin French aka Talos spent months preparing for his debut album, but it was sudden impulses in the studio that led to his best musical moments

Newpark Music Centre' s respected jazz programme, which offers a rich and broad musical education, will transfer to DCU in September

ITs around the country offer a diverse range of course options for prospective students

Line-up also features Mick Flannery, Galway outfit We Banjo 3 and Roy Harper

Since loud became the new normal, the skills of music mastering engineers are essential

Finland-born Marja Gaynor, who jammed with Hansard, loves spontaneity of Irish musicians

Cllr Mannix Flynn accused of trying to visit sins of the past on band’s present generation

Rodrigo Y Gabriela and Bell X1 join acclaimed jazz perfomers on October line-up

Ringo Starr announces death of the record producer known as the ‘Fifth Beatle’

Movies are becoming increasingly graphic in their depiction of sex. For actors, it means some very awkward days at the office

Grand final of the annual cross-border choral music event held at Titanic Belfast

Some 40,000 music fans expected in city for festival over October Bank Holiday

Lucius co-frontwoman Holly Laessig talks about how the harmonising Brooklyn band grew out of a fun music-school project

Notable guests will include world-renowned pianist and composer Neil Brand, and composers Irene Buckley and Laurent Levesque

Gardaí close off streets as high tides and strong winds cause river Lee to burst banks

Council distributes over 2,000 sandbags as colleges cancel night classes

A new complaints choir is part of an international movement that is giving voice to our gripes