She’s come a long way since her Cork Opera House debut, aged 11, as Little Red Riding Hood. Next week, the actress tells Marjorie Brennan, she returns to the same stage in Angela’s Ashes.

Life, is ‘poor nasty brutish and short’ said Thomas Hobbes. Certainly, it’s no bed of roses. Natural selection should have equipped us to deal with fear and anxiety, but has it?

EVEN on his deathbed, Limerick was never far away from the thoughts of Frank McCourt.

DESPITE international acclaim, Frank McCourt was unsure what welcome he would get from his native city when he came back for the first book signing.

MIKE O’DONNELL believes his Angela’s Ashes walking tour of Limerick is a good barometer of the state of the tourism industry around the country.