HMV are to reopen their flagship Dublin store, on Grafton Street, with 40% off all vinyl albums, on the same day that independently owned record outlets celebrate Record Store Day. The most high-profile independent record shop in Ireland, Tower Records, dismisses HMV’s ‘record store celebration’ as a marketing ploy.

Over the course of The Menu’s career as a professional stove-jockey many moons ago, the apex of his career remains a prolonged spell as apprentice to sorcerer Seamus O’Connell of the Ivory Tower.

The value of an arts degree to job seekers will be discussed at a forum at Triskel Arts Centre this weekend, writes Colette Sheridan

MUSIC NEWS: Thom Yorke of Radiohead has unveiled some tracks from his Atoms For Peace project during a DJ set in the US.

As the Cork city arts space celebrates its birthday, director Tony Sheehan discusses its future with Colette Sheridan