Des O’Sullivan notices some low estimates on pieces of art by famous Irish artists in Whyte’s online-only auction.

MUSIC NEWS: Max Martin is Sweden’s greatest contribution to pop music since Abba, so it’s probably appropriate that some sort of Eurovision circle gets squared tomorrow when one of his songs is performed at the interval in Stockholm. 

IndieCork is proud of its niche status and ability to foster emerging talent, writes Colette Sheridan

Singers Sinéad O’Connor and Christy Moore, writers Colm Tóibín and Edna O’Brien, actor Cillian Murphy, and artist Pauline Bewick are among leading figures in Irish music, literature, and the arts advocating for the abolition of the eighth amendment to the Constitution, which they say has “prevented our doctors and our legislators from providing proper care to women”.

Irish and international work on sale comes from estate of deceased collector.

Dance: Junk Ensemble: Dusk Ahead, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny

MUSIC NEWS: Bruce Springsteen has sold out all his summer gigs in Ireland, and will spend some of the next few months helping on a documentary on himself.

Amid-career retrospective of the work of Alice Maher, Becoming is hosted by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, in Dublin.

Galway Arts Festival is a wild fortnight of theatre, music and comedy, says Carl Dixon

AN acclaimed Irish fashion designer has produced eight exquisite dresses inspired from a series of masterpieces that will be included in a sale of art works worth around €3 million in Dublin next week.

TO have been born in a republic and live now in an economy, as Theo Dorgan has put it, arises not from some mass conversion to new constitutional principles but simply from the silent tyranny of the market philosophy.