ARTS Minister Heather Humphreys is reputationally dead-on-arrival. Her demise is less about dastardly deeds than the damning belief she was led by the nose. That impression was confirmed by her near incoherence when questioned by the media and her refusal to answer questions since. There is nothing so debilitating for a minister as a fool’s pardon.

Remembering the victims of the Great Famine should encourage Irish people to intervene wherever there is injustice and hunger around the world, the President has said.

MAN of Valour premiered at Cork’s Everyman Theatre as part of the 2011 Cork Midsummer Festival, and returns to the venue this week.

Lives are being put at risk by deer poachers using high-powered rifles in rural areas at night, it was claimed yesterday.

Cork City theatre is nurturing talent by funding new plays, and by inviting the public to collaborate, says Colette Sheridan

ARTS, Heritage and Gaeltacht Minister Jimmy Deenihan has said the Shannon estuary will not be “frozen for development” in spite of the estuary being designated a Special Protection Area (SPA) for birds.

A trainee teacher, and the mother of four children, has been given permission by the High Court to challenge Roscommon Co Council's decision that she is not entitled to a Higher Education Grant.

ARTS Minister Martin Cullen said he chose his words carefully when likening media intrusion into his life to male rape.

ARTS Minister Martin Cullen said he felt like he was “being raped” by the media intrusion into his life over unfounded allegations that he had an affair with his former PR consultant, Monica Leech.

A €500,000 budget has been made available by the Government for the memorial promised in honour of the victims of institutional child abuse.

TRIBUTES poured in over the weekend to the writer and broadcaster Nuala Ó Faoláin, who died on Saturday morning three months after being diagnosed with cancer.

ARTS Minister Séamus Brennan will join Bertie Ahern on the back benches this afternoon after resigning from cabinet.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue has ordered a probe into events surrounding the State’s €1.17 million purchase of a rare James Joyce manuscript, it emerged last night.

ARTS, Sport and Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue praises Fine Gael for their consistency (Irish Examiner letters, November 23).

ARTS, Sport and Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue praised the Ken Loach film The Wind That Shakes The Barley for showing “the worst barbarities of imperialist power”.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue was last night accused of failing to get a grip on €35 million swallowed up by a historical database project which is 25 years from completion due to internal divisions.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue will open Cork’s newest cultural facility for young people today.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue announced the appointment of five new members of the Arts Council yesterday.

ARTS Minister John O'Donoghue came out strongly in favour of retaining the tax exemption for artists yesterday.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue led tributes yesterday to Wexford Festival Opera chief executive Jerome Hynes, who died suddenly at the age of 48.

ARTS Minister John O’Donoghue will today unveil a multi-million euro package of festival events to turn Ireland into a cultural haven during the country’s six month stint as president of the European Union.