Cork woman Orla O’Sullivan became deaf in infancy through a side-effect of medication. As a new RTÉ documentary shows, it didn’t stop her pursuing her love of music, writes Marjorie Brennan

This year’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival promises to be the best ever, writes Declan Townsend.

Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, the New York Met — these have always been places for the theatre lover to imagine, but rarely experience.

St Barrahane’s, Castletownshend

Declan Townsend finds the programme for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival has him feeling like a child in a sweet shop, hoping he can sample everything