Oscar Wilde

We’re living in an age of distrust. Scandals in politics, policing, journalism and the church tempt us to think the worst of others. Cynicism is rife(...)

There’s no accounting for taste, goes the old adage. But in the recent Bonnar Keenlyside report into the Gate Theatre, there is something like an audi(...)

The actor Marie Conmee and her partner Mary Brady had a penchant for beating up barmen, and occasionally even policemen. The trouble usually began wh(...)

Celebrity weddings in Ireland are par for the course now but news that Rory McIlroy is to marry Erica Stoll in Ashford Castle later this month is stil(...)

Fourteen people have been found in the back of a refrigerated lorry at the Rosslare Europort. The people are from Afghanistan, Iran and there are al(...)

On a recent afternoon in Dublin, which the spring sunshine had made seem for a moment like a different city, Selina Cartmell ascended, via a rust-cove(...)

The late masterpieces of Schubert, Handel in Ireland, and Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis with Stephen Rea are among the highlights of this year’s Kilkenny(...)

CONNACHT Galway Galway has always been a hub for visitors, notably including Christopher Columbus, who pitched up in 1477 and is thought to have atte(...)

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In response to the imminent threat of job automation we have looked to political leaders promising to stem the economic tide or to tech leaders who ar(...)