IT WAS politics at its best, the referendum. Political parties looking at a proposition decided to espouse it. Ways were found by both sides in the argument to engage the public. The clearest of decisions was made by the electorate, and countless lives were changed for the better.

THOSE in need of a fix at this fallow time of year for auctions can always head west.

At 88, the iconic theatre’s barmaid tells Margaret Carragher about the many stars she met, and how she bizarrely hid eight kids from the boss

THE passion for treading the boards on the amateur drama circuit will be documented in a new six-part series on RTÉ One, starting on Apr 16.

How a theatre producer transformed a derelict stone cottage into a star attraction. Tommy Barker reports

“RTÉ was in total chaos at the time. It opened long before it should have.”

A production of one of the world’s best known theatrical masterpieces will visit the length and breadth of the country this autumn.

GREAT cities have a genius for throwing up characters and institutions, people and places that somehow manage to represent the quirks and foibles of the city.