Summer time should mean expeditions and adventures out of doors but it feels like we haven’t moved beyond March.

Suzanne Harrington asks whose genius idea was it to cut children’s books while still funding animal suffering?

Cormac James

GIVEN its tendency to be thought about and practiced in different ways, and experienced in a sometimes sporadic and incidental way, one might reasonably pose the question where it is that architecture is thought to begin and end, and exactly whom is it thought that it ‘belongs’ to?

Lunchtime on Saturday will see a unique concert at Triskel Christchurch in Cork as part of the city’s choral festival.

An elite artists’ group has rejected public criticism over the amount of funding it receives from the taxpayer, claiming the Government would drive “JCBs full of money” to any private business that provided such a return on the “investment”.

Soprano Deirdre Moynihan, centre, with Coláiste Choilm Ballincollig students Evan McCába, Ciara O’Hanlon, Aoife McPolin and Luke Gallagher.

Tina O’Sullivan previews a series of exhibitions in the Crawford and other venues to mark 60 years of the Arts Council

The Apartment

The world’s oldest yacht club is venturing into uncharted waters tonight by hosting its first ever cinema screening.

What I do: I am a soprano and a traditional Irish musician.

Acting confuses Colin Farrell too much to go into directing, the actor revealed tonight.

Oscar hopeful Daniel Day Lewis and Colin Farrell will be among the stars attending the Jameson International Film Festival in Dublin, which opens today.

Dublin has been twinned with New Delhi in a new exhibition in India by an Irish artist.

Part of a rediscovered private art collection including unseen paintings by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy was tonight sold for €2.5m – a million euro over its pre-sale estimate.

Part of a rediscovered private art collection including unseen paintings by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy will be auctioned tonight.

A private art collection including unseen paintings by Jack B Yeats and Louis le Brocquy will be auctioned this week.