‘Home of the Year’ begins a new series on RTÉ One on Thursday, with new judge Deirdre Whelan joining Hugh Wallace, and Declan O’ Donnell.

Update 5pm: The Director of the Abbey says the theatre is committed to putting on more plays written by women.

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The Events uses a different Cork choir each night in the manner of a Greek-style chorus reacting to events, writes Colette Sheridan.

IN Exit Strategy, a new work created locally and performed in the Cork Arts Theatre for Cork Midsummer Festival, two semi-fictional characters riff on Cork’s cultural life.

BALLYDEHOB-BASED writer, Carmel Winters, has explored delicate subjects, such as the sexuality of people who have special needs in the play, B for Baby.

Children are being invited to provide a commentary on some of Cork’s best known restaurants as part of this year’s Midsummer Festival.

Joe Dowling is back at the Abbey to direct an adaptation of James Joyce’s classic short story The Dead. He talks to Pádraic Killeen