Volunteers from the multinational tech company harvest food fresh from Fota Gardens, writes Peter Dowdall.

More than 55,000 people are expected to attend a 10-day festival in Cork which will feature theatre, dance, music and family-friendly events at several venues around the city.

1. French Fancy

Gibert O’Sullivan, Tommy Tiernan, and a wealth of opera, musicals, and theatre are just some of the highlights at Cork Opera House this year.

1 Walking Tall 

An Irish film based on a story by a West Cork-born writer about young male suicide in modern Ireland, is broadcast on RTÉ tonight.

Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

THOUGH going through gruelling treatment for a life-threatening disease, Jon Kenny continued to plant trees, near his home in Lough Gur, Co Limerick.

Here are five things to check out if you’re looking for something to do this week.

Irish animated film Song of the Sea will compete against some of the biggest players in the movie business after being nominated for an Oscar.

Song of the Sea from Kilkenny's Cartoon Saloon has been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at this year’s Academy awards.

Abbey Theatre

MAG MELL, a play that encompasses traditional Irish music, dance and puppetry, stars Jon Kenny as politician/property developer PJ Foley.

Theatre: The Matchmaker

I like being the captain of my own soul. I don’t like being told what to do.

Mary McEvoy, who stars alongside Jon Kenny in John B Keane’s play, The Matchmaker, is appreciative of the Kerry playwright’s strong roles for women.

FRANKIE KNUCKLES RIP: House music fans around the world are mourning the passing this week of Frankie Knuckles, a man who had such a hand in the development of the genre.

Highlights include Gay Byrne's interview with Bono, and Chris O'Dowd on the Graham Norton Show.

A livestock auction to raise funds for a cancer support and drop-in centre in Co Cork has helped raise over €120,000.

As well as the Eurovision, highlights include the return of The Good Wife to RTÉ

You might remember our story about Bonnie and Clyde back in January .

Tubridy the calf was the star of a livestock auction that raised over €40,000 for a cancer charity yesterday.

RTÉ broadcaster Ryan Tubridy has become a “dad” again extending his lineage to support a Co Cork cancer charity.

With the Section 481 production tax relief extended until 2020, the Irish film industry breathed a sigh of relief after some pre-budget suggestions that the scheme might have been axed.

One of Ireland’s funniest men, Pat Shortt, is laughing all the way to the bank with his main firm recording profits of €379,245 last year.

JON Kenny in his famous D’Unbelievables sketch immortalised the stereotypical GAA club manager.

I was a fairly outgoing child, I suppose, but a career in comedy was never really on the cards.

MUNSTER rugby players and supporters are organising a series of charity events to support a colleague and friend diagnosed with motor neurone disease last year and to research into the debilitating condition.

A COMPANY formed by pork farmers to protect and promote their industry will formally launch its Truly Irish Country Foods brand at Mitchelstown Food Festival this coming weekend.

A COMPANY formed by pork farmers to protect and promote their industry will formally launch its Truly Irish Country Foods brand at Mitchelstown Food Festival this coming weekend.

The cream of Irish singing talent, as well as Munster rugby, features on a new CD aimed at raising funds for a young rugby player.

EIGHT celebrities have swapped their glamorous lifestyles for the raw passion of a GAA training ground.

Eight celebrities have swapped their glamorous lifestyles for the raw passion of a GAA training ground.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney has agreed to investigate why a life-saving CT scanner remains idle at a general hospital since last December.

MIDSUMMER’S DAY promises the longest day and a longer night at a golf and glitz charity Golf Pro-Am at Limerick County Golf Club.

CANCER survivor and comedian Jon Kenny has blasted a Health Service Executive (HSE) decision to leave idle a €1 million lifesaving machine.

Legendary satirist Flann O’Brien is the father of Irish comedy, one of the country’s top comics declares in a major new celebration of the writer’s work.

A PINT and a couple of Shortts, please.

A PINT and a couple of Shortts, please. Top comedian Pat Shortt has bought his first pub, it emerged last night.

COMEDIAN Pat Shortt is still waiting for his punchline, before he laughs his way back to the bank.

Niall Murray

LIMERICK today launches a major attraction that will allow shoppers chill out throughout Christmas and the New Year.

More than 30,000 people are expected to flock to Kilkenny to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ireland’s main comedy festival over the coming bank holiday weekend.

Ten of Ireland's top comedians launched the Murphy’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival today.