Irish theatre company ANU bring their show about the Manchester bombing to the city where it happened, writes Padraic Killeen

Siptu is to fully drape three sides of the landmark 60m-tall Liberty Hall with images from 1916 to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.

The hell of Gallipoli has inspired the latest drama from Anu, writes Padraic Killeen.

The homeless crisis is going to get worse despite a €10m budget allocation, while projects working with drug users had their funding "chiselled away" during the consecutive austerity budgets.

If you haven’t been to the capital lately, it’s an exciting time to visit, writes Pól Ó Conghaile.

For 27,000 Leaving Certificate students, French papers were the morning fare and there were no nasty surprises.

The pension debacle at Aer Lingus rumbles on. However, this saga has taken a new twist that has far reaching ramifications for the trade union movement that will threaten their relevance.

In honour of the centenary of the 1913 Lockout, the Abbey Theatre is closing out the year with a rare revival of James Plunkett’s play The Risen People.

MUSIC NEWS: It’s been far too long since we’ve seen a new video from the Rubberbandits, and we’re glad to confirm that new track ‘Hey Mister’ reinforces the Limerick duo’s reputation as the sharpest social commentators in Irish music.

I am approaching my 83rd birthday. Both my wife and I had been in receipt of free, prescriptive medicine, but, of course, no longer.

The slum conditions existing at the time of the 1913 Lockout continue today in “appalling” rented accommodation, Fr Peter McVerry has said.

The array at Whyte’s auction of history, literature and collectibles in Dublin next Saturday (Sep 14) ranges from comic books, to memories of the Great Famine and the 1913 Lockout, to sporting memorabilia.

President Michael D Higgins will lead the centenary commemoration of the 1913 Lockout later today.

Up to 80,000 people are expected to line Dublin’s main thoroughfare to mark the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s greatest industrial dispute.

The man who triggered the Dublin Lockout should be judged on all of his achievements and not just on his role in Ireland’s greatest industrial conflict, his descendants have said.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of perhaps the most significant event in Irish Labour Relations history.

I understand that the menu at the garden party held in commemoration of the 1913 Lockout included smoked salmon, strawberries with chocolate and scones with cream.

Two original photographs documenting Michael Collins’ final hours have been unearthed at a historical roadshow in Cork.

Suggested holiday reading for Enda Kenny?

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore rattled off Labour’s greatest hits in a bid to buoy delegates at the opening night of the party’s centenary conference.

IGGY AND ME by Jenny Valentine (Harper Collins; €5.92). It’s end of term and little Iggy is worried. “Who will look after the hamsters and the guinea pigs?” she asks.

ONE of Dublin’s most iconic buildings, Liberty Hall, is to be given a complete face-lift to celebrate the centenary anniversary of its occupant SIPTU.

JAMSIE and Rena Power are no historians but they are giving children in a Waterford village a unique insight into growing up in the 1940s and 1950s.

IT’S been claimed that an unarmed RIC man was the first victim of the Eater Rising at the GPO in Dublin.

GAMA managers have taken 230 striking workers off their payroll and are trying to starve them into submission, it was claimed yesterday.

Proposals to sell Liberty Hall in Dublin have been sharply criticised by the Labour Party.

THE Government’s failure to address the enormous differences in costs of living between Ireland and other EU countries will be attacked at the Labour Party conference tonight.