From Father’s Day gifts to fancy breakfast trays, Esther N McCarthy rummages through the best of this week’s offerings

Annie Fletcher has been named as director of IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

As the new director of the Cork gallery, Mary McCarthy will oversee a €22m extension, and also hopes to rejuvenate public interest in the city-centre facility, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Des O’Driscoll shares the latest news

William Crozier may have been born in Scotland, but the late artist spent many happy years in West Cork. Tina Darb O’Sullivan previews a major exhibition of his work in Skibbereen

Extra spray days, due to the reduced risk of damaging spray drift, is one of the advantages claimed for the Syngenta Defy 3D Nozzle, winner of one of the annual International Machinery Manufacturers Awards’ 2016 Innovation Awards (IMMAs) at the recent Cereals event in the UK.

Two Suitcases is a community film project for teens living with illness. It’s a liberating experience for them, reports Helen O’Callaghan

Enda Kenny said he takes responsibility for the appointment of John McNulty — but says he had no role in appointing him to the Irish Museum of Modern Art board.

AN irreplaceable part of Ireland’s patrimony is to be auctioned off in London, though last Saturday President Michael D Higgins presided at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Heritage Council, writes Gerard Howlin.

Gerda Frömel drowned aged 44, but a new exhibition serves as a reminder of why she was one of Ireland’s most lauded sculptors, writes Alan O’Riordan

The Government yesterday committed to ensuring almost half of the membership on all state boards in future are women, as it launched a transparent process for appointments to agencies and bodies.

The Public Expenditure Minister says the new state board appointments process is a "sea change" - but admits there may still be controversies ahead.

In my days as a young political reporter if you’d asked me the difference between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil one of my first thoughts would have been: Fianna Fáil are far more craic.

The Government behaved in an "underhand" way during the Cronygate controversy, Fine Gael’s chief whip has admitted.

Magic Moment: For a very literal answer, I would look to a spellbinding sequence from Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, a show by Australia’s Back to Back Theatre company that was one of several from Down Under during the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Will Irish artist Duncan Campbell win the Turner Prize tonight? He talks with Alan O’Riordan

The government has unveiled new guidelines for filling positions on state boards, where every appointment will be filled externally.

An iconic Roy Keane photo is just one of 100 pieces assembled by Dorothy Cross from various collections for a major exhibition at IMMA, writes Alan O’Riordan

Arts Minister Heather Humphreys has come under more pressure to explain how she appointed John McNulty to a cultural post days before he was named as Fine Gael candidate for a Seanad vacancy.

Fine Gael’s Seanad by-election candidate John McNulty was set to immediately resign if he pulls off a shock today.

ENDA KENNY needs me. He needs me if John McNulty loses the Seanad by-election tomorrow and he needs me even more if John Mc Nulty wins.

Too much energy has been wasted on the bushfire which flared since the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) board appointments debacle.

Donegal businessman John McNulty is expected to take up his Seanad seat next week — on the same day Michael Noonan will deliver his budget to the Dáil.

Arts Minister Heather Humphreys has been asked to appear before an Oireachtas committee to answer questions on her appointment of Fine Gael’s Seanad by-election candidate to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) board.

When Arts Minister Heather Humphreys said she couldn’t say who told her to appoint John McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art as it was a "Fine Gael matter", she revealed the very line of thinking that has landed her Government in the trouble it’s in.

So Noonan saved Kenny’s bacon again but in the process, no doubt unintentionally, proved the charge of cronyism against Fine Gael.

ON the anniversary of the people’s decision to save the Seanad, the second chamber has burst back into public consciousness with the bizarre nomination of John McNulty to contest a by-election on behalf of Fine Gael caused by the election of stalwart party grandee Deirdre Clune to the European Parliament.

A second person appointed by Arts Minister Heather Humphreys to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma) has links with Fine Gael.

Arts Minister Heather Humphreys has refused to answer questions about who advised her to appoint a failed party election candidate to a state board and instead said it is a matter for Fine Gael.

"WHEN I win this vote, I will go on to be Taoiseach," said a fiery Enda Kenny — to a roar described by one TD as being "as loud of those vuvuzela horns in South Africa" — as he delivered a rousing speech in a packed Leinster House meeting room, which saw off party rebels seeking to oust him.

The Arts Minister has refused to reveal who within Fine Gael asked her to consider John McNulty for a place on the IMMA board.

The Taoiseach has told his Parliamentary Party meeting that he's "no Charlie Haughey".

Fergus Finlay misses the point.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has denied discussing appointing John McNulty to an arts board just days before nominating the businessman to a vacancy on the Seanad’s cultural panel.

I’M one of the small constituency disgusted at the John McNulty affair because the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has insulted artists in using the IMMA as a spring-board to “better things” for a political protege.

The Taoiseach has seen off any major backlash over his handling of Fine Gael’s nomination process for the Seanad by-election after backbenchers were told to keep their focus on economic recovery.

The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told the Fine Gael that it is time to move on from the John McNulty affair and focus on the next election.

John McNulty says he wants to draw a line under the controversy surrounding him, and he has done nothing wrong.

The Imma affair has thrown into sharp relief the glorious aspirations for government reform and transparency trumpeted by Fine Gael in its New Politics document, writes Michael Clifford.

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.