JOHN P Quinlan is from Macroom, and founded the Vangard Gallery in Cork in 1991. He is in the midst of a nine-month stint as guest curator at Triskel in Cork.

Let It Be, an international touring show that celebrates the music of the Beatles, is very much an occasion of nostalgia for the Swinging Sixties.

Brighton paid back something of a debt of gratitude to Tony Bloom by providing him with a winner at his local track.