Sound Off: Dublin Theatre Festival artistic director Willie White on O’Connell Street

Taoiseach reaffirms commitment to doubling expenditure on arts, culture and sport

Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’

Company behind 60-year-old event plans to clear shortfall in next three to five years

The #nowrongpath campaign reminds school leavers that exams are only one path to a career

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

General consensus that higher level paper ‘was very straightforward’

Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots

‘Don Giovanni’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Seagull’ on the bill for 2016

Festival clears deficit as box-office income jumps by 45 per cent

‘Indirect, implicit kind of equality is not enough. It needs to be explicit,’ event hears

HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week

Among this year's highlights is the Irish premiere of ‘The Night Alive’ by Conor McPherson in the Gaiety

The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

Walls Construction spun out from holding company and on track for €100m turnover

Irish firm acquired by a new holding company

The full script for The Arc, a project devised by The Irish Times and Dublin Theatre Festival

Reduced ticket income at Dublin Theatre Festival blamed on fewer performances

Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work

Karl Wallace’s resignation comes after row over chief executive job

Irish theatre is bursting with energy – but youth is all these artists have in common

Line-up includes new plays by Frank McGuinness and Eugene O’Neill, and a fresh translation of The Threepenny Opera