In Michael West’s play for the Peacock, an old box prompts an examination of a marriage, says Pádraic Killeen

MAN of Valour premiered at Cork’s Everyman Theatre as part of the 2011 Cork Midsummer Festival, and returns to the venue this week.

A new adaptation of James Joyce’s short story collection premieres at Dublin Theatre Festival, Alan O’Riordan reports

Dramatic first hand accounts of people caught up in the War of Independence have been collected in a book documenting one of the most turbulent times in Irish history.

FRUSTRATION at the slow rate of progress in introducing key elements of a two-year-old mental health act is expected to be expressed today by the independent body set up to shepherd in the legislation.

DISABILITY campaigners yesterday accused the Government of widespread and indiscriminate cuts to vital services.