Champagne deliveries: now that’s worth celebrating . . .

. . . but we’re less keen on the in-tents side of the summer festival experience

Waterford businesswoman to head Galway 2020 team

Hannah Kiely handling €45.75m budget for European Capital of Culture programme

A vision of the future that's a ‘Hunger Games’ in reverse

‘Futures’ at RHA showcases idiosyncratic, thought-provoking work in variety of media

Illuminating our complex relationships with things

The things we are drawn to acquire reflect and express our personalities and more: our ideas about ourselves, our aspirations and perhaps our limitations and delusions

The Kilkenny art centre with a difference

Jubilant and celebratory, the Kilkenny Collective for Arts Talent blends art with disability care to create a studio like no other

Paul Doran in Dublin: You won't see a livelier display of painting all year

Plus: Finnish women let us into their lives with humour

When Ballymun was all towering promise

Vulnerable bodies and the dispossessed also feature in three Galway International Arts Festival highlights

Visual art: A Kilkenny collective that recognises no rules

A strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingness

Teens in hospital explore their creative lives

Art projects help teenagers at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and Cork University Hospital to alter their realities

Disappearing islands and a planet on the edge: visual art round-up

Galway’s annual winter arts festival is, fittingly enough, all about the weather

‘Galway Banksy’ focuses on mind over matter in hospital graffiti

Finbar 247 was let loose in University Hospital Galway to mark Mental Health Week with positive messages

Beneath the surface of ordinary family life | Visual art round-up

Sabine Lacey paints real photographs to explore the history of a family; Bridget O’Gorman’s sculptures point to some unspoken calamity; and Johnny Savage’s book is a thoughtful, valuable take on the 21st-century Irish landscape

Omey races: horses compete in Connemara windy weather

Over 2,000 people attend the rugged annual race in the west of Ireland

Crubeens, creativity and commemorations at Cúirt literary festival

New plaques celebrating Yeats, ‘The Kasbah’ and Ó Conaire to be unveiled in Galway city

St Patrick’s Day: News, colour and fun across the island

The news from Dublin to Kerry; Belfast to Cork; Sligo to Waterford

Joseph O’Neill and Irvine Welsh for Cúirt festival

Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway

Direct provision: ‘Ghosts’ and ‘spaces’ depicted in exhibition

Asylum Archive opens at Galway Arts Centre combining photography and video works

The age-old traditions of Gareth Kennedy’s invented worlds

The artist’s latest projects centre on what he calls ‘folk fictions’

Boatbuilder sails into uncharted artistic waters

Patrick Connolly teams up with an artist to build a ‘pavilion’ as a public art commission

No need for anxiety as Tulca engages in Galway

Its theme is the anxiety of life in the modern world, but the annual festival is rock steady

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