Why do GAA matches end up in fights? asks Paul Rouse

It’s 2009, summer, and Ireland stands on the brink of catastrophic recession, or, as the very unreliable narrator of Ithaca puts it: it was ‘the summer after all the money disappeared’. 

On the day Alexandra Heminsley and her husband returned from their honeymoon, they got into the sea near their Brighton home. 

Peacekeepers — The Irish in South Lebanon is on RTÉ One at 9.35pm on Tuesday.

Men are expected to keep their feelings in check but this can get in the way of developing an emotional literacy, says Dave Kenny.

Since meeting legendary pianist and broadcaster Marian McPartland at 15 years of age American saxophonist Chris Potter has been on a musical journey.

The Greek Anthology Book XVII

The Songs of Achilles

Greece has always looked at its classical age as a usable past but there is no solace in the classics to inspire the country out of its financial and economic woes. What Greece needs is a cultural revolution, writes Fouad Ajami

A Hundred Doors

INDUSTRIAL unrest now seems an inevitable by-product of the cuts required to reboot the Irish economy, leading economists are warning.

Brad Pitt is set to star in a new adaptation of Greek poet Homer's famous masterpiece 'The Odyssey' - set in outer space.

Brad Pitt is set to star in a new adaptation of Greek poet Homer's famous masterpiece 'The Odyssey' - set in outer space.

‘Sunday Game’ pundits who call on refs to ‘let the game flow’ even when a foul has been committed… the Cork football and hurling panels and their recent performances… Managers of losing teams…the Munster Council for not allowing reduced student admission prices to stands at big matches … too many lopsided games in both the hurling and football championships … There’s no shortage of targets for the fans’ anger this week.

The cast of movie blockbuster Troy were bringing some Hollywood star power to the Cannes Film Festival today.

The Academy Awards are shaping up as a something of a horse race.