Opera buffs should be well pleased this week with Ellen Kent’s Opera & Ballet International staging two legendary Verdi productions plus a Puccini from the Chisinau in Moldova.

HAVING to travel to the coldest, furthest reach of the house to watch Freeview TV has been one of our oldest family traditions.

HOME, 9am, in the kitchen. It is the last morning of my sister’s visit, and I’m sitting at the table with my nieces and nephew.

Check out some of this year's winners from the World Press Photo awards for 2012.

A sad day for one family proves everyone is equal before the law, writes Michael Clifford

The celebrities championing the works of art in RTÉ’s Masterpiece campaign to discover Ireland’s favourite painting may be better known than the artists.

THE gentle swell and curve of west Cork is another world, I think to myself as I drive through bleak landscape north-west of Tuam.

THE 14-month-old daughter of a heavily pregnant woman has died in Ireland’s latest window blind cord hanging tragedy.

THE parents and siblings of a man who was raped as a child by a priest, and in adulthood took his own life, have demanded that Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray step aside.

TOPFLIGHT will cater for opera buffs for the duration of the famous Verona festival which runs from June 19 to August 30 in the restored third century Roman amphitheatre.

Superstar singer Beyonce Knowles is reportedly being lined up to feature in a film adaptation of Broadway musical Aida.

THE US military has launched an investigation into claims that American forces shot dead 15 members of two families, including a three year-old-girl, shortly after a roadside bomb killed a US marine in a western Iraqi town.

The US military has launched an investigation into claims that American forces shot dead 15 members of two families, including a three year-old-girl, shortly after a roadside bomb killed a US Marine in a western Iraqi town.

Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child is heading for Broadway as the new star of Aida.