Conor Linehan
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Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
- Music
- December 12, 2020, 05:00
“If I wanted to do this I wouldn’t have started from here.” It’s such an obvious point that nobody has actually yet bothered to make it to me about an(...)

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
- Stage
- January 7, 2019, 16:16
More than 300 actors, directors, designers, agents and playwrights have complained to the Minister for Culture about the Abbey Theatre’s recently adop(...)

Sae Yoon Chon is first Asian winner of Dublin International Piano Competition
- Music
- May 30, 2018, 14:55
The triennial Dublin International Piano Competition is catching up. Last time around, in 2015, it chose its first ever female winner, France’s Nathal(...)

President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
- Stage
- May 19, 2018, 18:41
Playwright Tom Murphy was a “great vulnerable courageous being” and a “genius that we have lost”, President Michael D Higgins has said. Addressing a (...)

Funeral of Fergus Linehan told of kindness and principles
- Social Affairs
- November 4, 2016, 17:35
Fergus Linehan’s funeral was an occasion to mourn “but also to give thanks for our gentle, kind, brilliant, generous, erudite husband, Dad, Papa, who (...)

Levy on undeveloped plots of land payable from 2019
- Environment
- March 10, 2016, 19:07
Landowners have been warned that a forthcoming levy will affect a high proportion of vacant sites, although the fee will not be payable until 2019. (...)

Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
- Stage
- March 9, 2016
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards took place with a spectacular ceremony at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Sunday. Among the video tribute(...)

Who wants to play music at work?
- Music
- February 8, 2016, 06:00
Part of the pleasure of music is that no formal knowledge is necessary to enjoy it. In spite of this, many of us are inclined to shy away from classi(...)

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are . . .
- Stage
- January 16, 2016, 14:00
Best production Chekhov’s First Play A Dead Centre production with Dublin Theatre Festival, Baltoscandal and Theatre National Bordea(...)

Review – You Never Can Tell: Excuses are hard to make for Shaw’s problematic play
- Stage
- December 9, 2015, 14:20
Abbey Theatre, Dublin ** Where are we? Bernard Shaw’s 1896 comedy suggests an English seaside resort, where a mother and her three children have (...)