Choirs from across the world made the best of the poor weather over the bank holiday weekend to deliver another successful Cork International Choral Festival.

With everything from karate for kids to computers for the silver surfer, this year’s Cork Lifelong Learning Festival is fun, fascinating and — best of all — free.

After working with the group Elbow, Cork composer John Browne has now switched his attentions to a play set in the aftermath of a massacre, writes Jo Kerrigan

BACK in France, after the ‘Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music’ we performed in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork, I wish to express my best thanks to all the members of the Cork Jazz Festival committee ...