TRIBUTES were paid last night to stage and comedy legend Paddy Comerford who died suddenly yesterday. He was 80.

TRIBUTES were paid last night to stage and comedy legend Paddy Comerford who died suddenly yesterday. He was 80.

HUNDREDS of mourners from the world of politics, business and the GAA gathered at St Michael’s Church, Blackrock, Cork, yesterday for the funeral of former city manager Jack Higgins.

WARM tributes were paid last night to former Cork and Limerick city manager, Jack Higgins, with councillors describing him as “very efficient public servant” and “a strategic thinker”.

IN response to your editorial of June 19 dealing with the temporary closure of the Opera House in Cork and the question posed in it – “when did our national theatre – the Abbey – last bring a production to the south?” – the answer is September 2009, when the award-winning play Terminus, by Mark O’Rowe, was presented by the Abbey on the stage of the Everyman Palace Theatre.

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for David Gordon, one of the country’s most colourful choreographers, who died yesterday, aged 69.

THERE have been calls for a complete overhaul of the mechanisms used to distribute over €350,000 of public money to fund the arts in Cork.

Cork is in line for a €20m windfall on the forthcoming bank holiday weekend — thanks to the Guinness sponsored Cork Jazz festival.

Hollywood star Ed Harris is to tread the boards of Cork's Everyman Palace theatre.

CASH-STRAPPED Cork Opera House passed up the opportunity to stage the hit musical, I, Keano in the soccer star’s home town, the show’s producer has claimed.