Playing politics with the RTÉ orchestra cutbacks controversy

Taoiseach weighs in, Minister for Arts kicks to touch, Fianna Fáil comes late to the cause

John O’Conor to receive NCH Lifetime Achievement award

The pianist marks his 70th birthday year with a wonderful coda

The true cost of that tropical hardwood table

Global Witness co-founder Patrick Alley exposes links between ecocide and genocide

National Concert Hall needs to go beyond classical music

‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’

Fight for gender equality moves from theatre to music

When it comes to ‘gender mainstreaming’, we can learn something from Vienna city hall

Backstage diaries: how we’re planning for a cultural 2017

Big hopes for festivals throughout the coming year

‘Composing the Island’ was a landmark and there is no going back

The event highlighting a neglected repertoire from Irish composers should happen every year

A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint

Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering

Arts Council director Orlaith McBride’s contract to be extended

McBride’s is one of a number of high-profile culture contracts due to expire

New York Philharmonic helps NCH keep ticket revenues steady

Some 320,000 people visited the National Concert Hall in 2015 but rising expenses sees venue report €300,000 deficit

Rooms for a rent – An Irishman’s Diary on the restored venue of the 1921 Treaty debates

A vision of home that has few ideas for classical music

Only one living Irish composer is part of the NCH’s seven-concert series for the 1916 centenary

National Concert Hall breaks even with 330,000 visitors

Venue secures third highest attendance figures to date as box office sales reach €7m

Remembering 1916: Coalition signals seven projects to be ready

‘Reminders’, costing €22m, include centre in GPO and Teach an Phiarsaigh in Ros Muc

The Rising centenary gives RTÉ a chance to rescind its one-time offers

RTÉ tends to give new Irish music just one airing in concert, so its plans to celebrate the past century of Irish music is a very valuable idea

Barclays to host entrepreneurs seminar

Panellists include Colm Lyon of Realex Payments and Colm Piercy of Viatel and Digiweb Group

Some new year resolutions the NCH and RTÉ should consider

The NCH needs to give greater prominence to the music in its promotion and RTÉ needs to be braver about new music

The closed approach of the Minister for Arts does not inspire confidence

In her first few months in the job, it’s hard to know what Heather Humphreys thinks about the boards of cultural institutions and the arts

A west Cork journey from milking parlour to music chamber

How did Francis Humphrys go from farming to developing his labour of love, West Cork Chamber Music Festival?

NCH rows: stop the squabbling and focus on the fundamentals

Disputes at the top level of the NCH are overshadowing more immediate concerns at the ground level

All mod cons: a rebuilt Maynooth organ passes its first test

The personality of the ‘new’ Ruffatti organ at St Patrick’s College chapel is suave, full, luxuriant and finely balanced

Premature concert clappers: let’s give them all a round of applause

There’s not much point in frowning on ‘ill-timed’ applause. What’s unusual today used to be the norm

Pimp my piano: a technician lifts the lid

Dublin International Piano Festival opened with an intimate look at – and inside – the instrument

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