Comedian Tim Vine dusted off his joke book and cleaned up at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe when his one-liner was voted the funniest wisecrack of the festival.

Brecht-Weill’s rarely-seen opera is a stirring take on consumer excess, writes Padraic Killeen.

It will not just be Fota Island Resort inviting Irish golf to party in two weeks’ time, the Irish Open hosts’ fellow Corkonians are also getting in on the act as a nation of golfers descends on the county for the prestigious European Tour event.

After months of exciting plotting and planning, the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest got underway at the Grain Store in Ballymaloe last night.

Next week’s Fringe will be Róise Goan’s last as director. She has helped make the festival the spiritual home of contemporary performance, says Pádraic Killeen

A gag about a chocolate bar has been named the funniest joke of the Edinburgh fringe.

Fund it has proved to be a lifeline for cash-strapped cultural projects, writes Alan O’Riordan

Enjoying a head massage by the pond in Fitzgerald Park, still savouring the exquisite aftertastes of some Ballymaloe crab paté washed down with a 30-year-old sherry, as a string quartet plays in the background — it is hard to imagine a finer place to be on a Friday afternoon than the inaugural Irish Examiner Food Festival.

Loughlin Deegan tells Alan O’Riordan how the Dublin Theatre Festival is making the most of the city’s talent

FIFTY years of memories of one of Waterford’s favourite cultural events was unveiled yesterday.

SCREENINGS of the ever-popular Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and High School Musical are among the highlights of a programme of free events during next week’s Waterford International Festival of Music.

A WIDE-ranging Fringe Festival programme has been announced for the Waterford International Festival of Music taking place next month.

The annual Fringe Festival has been launched in Dublin.

Comic Tim Vine was crowned king of the one-liners today after one of his gags was named the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.

The world’s largest arts festival got under way today with its busiest line-up to date.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe gets underway today with a record number of shows and soaring ticket sales.

THE artist behind a controversial series of installations in Waterford has put an act of vandalism against one of his pieces down to “porter rather than principle”.

LARGE-scale art installations dotted around Waterford’s city centre depicting war images are causing controversy because of their graphic content.

LARGE-scale art installations dotted around Waterford’s city centre depicting war images are causing controversy because of their graphic content.

THE spectacular grounds of Johnstown Castle was the setting for the opening of the 56th Wexford opera festival last night, as men in dapper evening dress and women in fine flowing dresses soaked up the evening sunshine and music on the castle lawn.

AWARD-WINNING band Keane have pulled the plug on a free concert in Dublin because their frontman Tom Chaplin is suffering exhaustion.

Award winning band Keane have pulled the plug on a free concert in Dublin because their frontman Tom Chaplin is suffering exhaustion, it emerged today.

Broadcaster Eamon Dunphy will chair a debate between Israeli comedian and professor of music, Eyal Kless and Palestinian ambassador, Ali Halimeh, as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival tomorrow.

Royston Brady, the Fianna Fáil Lord Mayor of Dublin, has officially opened the ninth annual Fringe Festival in the city.

A BIZARRE world record was broken yesterday when 14 volunteers squeezed into a phone box in a stunt to publicise a show at a top arts festival.