In her last column of 2019 Suzanne Harrington dares to dream ...

A Cork firm is targeting the karaoke market with its cutting edge sound technology, writes Trish Dromey

Three ages of summer with Camille O’Sullivan who recently finished her run at the Edinburgh Arts Festival.

George Orwell’s classic novel foretold a lot, but the manner in which we’ve handed over our personal data to faceless corporatocracies is doubleplus-ungood, says Suzanne Harrington.

A Corkman who was arrested last month in a raid by US Immigration and Enforcement (ICE) has said he is "embarrassed for the Government" that a minor drug charge will lead to his deportation from the US.

There was only ever going to be one winner here and, right enough, it was Laois.

Laois’ summer odyssey is over but they got to finish on terms that were perfectly acceptable given this was an All-Ireland quarter-final and their opponents were one of the game’s blue bloods.

Ernest Hemingway once said courage is “grace under pressure”.

Pat Critchley has heard Laois’ landmark win over Dublin described as the county’s most significant in the Championship since 1985 and can’t disagree.

Scoreboard Eddie Brennan had seen this coming.

Eddie Brennan's Laois hurlers have pulled off the shock of the summer – and maybe many more besides - with an astonishing two-point defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final.

In advance of The Blades’ first Cork gig in many years, Paul Cleary takes Richard Fitzpatrick through some of his musical milestones.

Eric and Donald Junior arrived in the village shortly after 10pm last night to cheers from locals as they swept up in Range Rovers.

The summer has begun well for sellers, reports Des O’Sullivan

The band’s memorabilia will hit all the right notes, says Des O’Sullivan.

A first-half blitz from Laois saw them claim a crucial Allianz Hurling League Division 1B win over Offaly on Saturday night.

Galway split their squad at the weekend, with half of them playing Ballygunner in a challenge match in Claregalway and the remainder brushing Laois aside in their opening game in Division 1B yesterday at Pearse Stadium.

John Lennon’s Christmas song mentioned New Year as well. “Let’s hope it’s a good one without any fear”.

BP Fallon is holding the first ever exhibition of pictures he’s taken of some of the music legends he’s hung out with, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

It was bound it happen.

Joey Tempest of the big-haired metal band tellsn Ed Power about megahit ‘The Final Countdown’ and his time living in this country.

The legendary singer was among a number of artists that performed at the Garden of Remembrance location.

This week, it really feels life is zooming by. We are all busy. Between farming and confirmations. Between religion and our calling to the land, we haven’t a moment to spare.

SHAMROCK Rovers’ training base at Kingswood was bathed in brilliant sunshine yesterday but manager Stephen Bradley and his players badly need a pick-me-up result against Limerick in Tallaght tonight (8pm) to dispel the dark clouds which currently assail the club.

Farmers can look back over the year, and hopefully can see how their business has improved, how they have added to their lot, and provided for themselves and their families, writes Kieran Coughlan.

Since reading Hillary Clinton’s memoir I’ve been giving a lot of thought to ‘difficult women’, writes Louise O’Neill.

Donovan is looking forward to travelling the few miles from his Co Cork home to play the city’s 38th folk festival, writes Ed Power

WHY, OH why did The Guardian have to do it? Why did it have to resort to the type of clichéd hatchet-job it would shake its head at in a less lofty publication?

A judge has approved a further €1.5m settlement for a former opera singer left severely disabled after a failure to properly diagnose the cause of her headaches.

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In Japan’s leafy hamlet of Karuizawa, otherworldly architecture is the expression of the uninhibited self, says Hanya Yanagihara

One of the greatest movies ever made features Jimmy Breslin, though the great New York columnist, who died over the weekend aged 88, doesn’t even appear on screen.

Ciara McDonnell has the lowdown on this season’s top movies – and the destinations they showcase.

‘New normal’ economics new but never normal, writes Eugene McErlean.

Conor McGregor could hardly have done more to make New York sit up and take notice, writes Brendan O’Brien

As the hype grows for Oasis: Supersonic, Declan Burke offers a personal selection of its predecessors in the genre

This week we meet up with Mark Cagney, the 60-year-old host of TV3’s Ireland AM.

 

If there’s a poster girl for fuss-free style, it’s got to be Laura Whitmore.