The Cork Opera House stage must feel like a second home to Lisa Hannigan. 

Bryce Dessner tells Ed Power why his band are so happy to be involved in the Sounds From A Safe Harbour festival in Cork

A surfer rescued after more than 30 hours stranded at sea has been discharged from hospital after making a "remarkable" recovery.

A surfer rescued after more than 30 hours stranded at sea thought he was going to die just moments before he was found by a helicopter.

A surfer who survived more than 30 hours stranded at sea on his board has hailed his rescuers as heroes.

A surfer who survived more than 30 hours stranded in the Irish Sea on his board has been described as "extremely lucky".

A surfer who had been missing since Sunday has been traced safe and well.

Munster 28 Edinburgh 14: “The performance was really, really average”. 

They say you should never meet your hero, you'll only be disappointed. That was certainly not the case for Bryce Hayashi and Mickle Miller when they played the Star Wars theme outside the house of composer John Williams.

As Cork gears up for a feast of music over the next few days, Ed Power spent the weekend in Lismore with some of the stars to get a taste of what’s in store for Leeside

England have named an unchanged starting XV for Friday’s World Cup opener against Fiji at Twickenham.

We bring you a round up of all the latest news and reviews from the world of entertainment. 

All the latest news from the world of music, film and entertainment.

A former director of a Dublin computer systems company claims in a High Court action that an anti-malarial drug, Lariam, which he took before honeymooning in Kenya 19 years ago, destroyed his life.

Bryce Dessner of The National has a long-held affinity with Cork. It’s part of the reason he’s organising an impressive music fest in the city, writes Ed Power

On their son Bryce’s birthday this year, Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand and her husband Rob went to a Dutch airbase, watched pall bearers solemnly unload seven coffins from a military cargo plane and wondered if they contained parts of the remains of Bryce or his girlfriend Daisy Oehlers.

A row over a sandwich appears to have been the reason for a trainer in Australia withdrawing three of his horses at a meeting at Racing.com Park in Victoria.

A row over a sandwich appears to have been the reason for a trainer in Australia withdrawing three of his horses at a meeting at Racing.com Park in Victoria.

The historic Everyman Theatre in Cork recorded a €462,000 increase in turnover last year, it emerged last night, as details of its new summer season were unveiled.

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Bryce Lund has a very special semi-aquatic dog.

Two prospects from the US ski team have been killed in an avalanche while skiing near their European training base in the Austrian Alps.

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A sound operator on reality TV show Cops has been shot dead by police officers who opened fire during a robbery at a fast food restaurant.

A father who lost his son in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash said that the families needed to see their loved ones and bury them for "closure".

Bowing to international pressure, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane.

A distraught mother had summed up the mood of anguish in the Netherlands at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing to Russian president Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his girlfriend.

It is no longer only grief and mourning sweeping across the Netherlands in the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It is now anger.

AARON Dessner chuckles ruefully as conversation turns to ‘Beyoncé-gate’.

Ron Howard wasn't keen for his children to pursue acting careers.

Metallica's Lars Ulrich loves touring because it gets him "out of the house".

The internationally regarded crime writer has written a wonderful, tale about a magical, medieval kingdom for children. She explains why to Sue Leonard

Jamaicans stocked up on supplies and reinforced roofs ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Sandy, which is expected to hit the Caribbean island as a hurricane with lashing rain and wind.

Three weeks into the new campaign and Munster are slowly resuming a semblance of proper order.

Munster head coach Rob Penney will expect his squad take a step further along the road to readiness for the season ahead when they face Bristol at Musgrave Park tonight (7pm).

Donncha O’Callaghan was casting a withering glance up the 18th fairway from the comfort of Munster’s temporary team room in the Fota Island Resort clubhouse.

Bryce Dallas Howard has given birth to her second child.

FOURTEEN points from out-half Craig Ronaldson in a 10-minute spell before the break sparked a Lansdowne revival that eventually consigned Old Belvedere to their third straight loss in Division 1A of the Ulster Bank League on the main pitch of the Aviva Stadium last night.

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IRELAND achieved their second win from three in the Six Nations U20 Championship with a decisive victory over Scotland at the Tulloch Caledonian Stadium in Inverness last night.

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