Although their work could be mistaken for banal ‘postmodern’ parody, Irish theatre company Pan Pan have a seriousness that resists the jaded flippancy that often passes for subversion. So, while their bizarre take on Chekhov’s classic The Seagull is playful, daft, and ‘meta’, it’s also thrumming with something visceral and enigmatic, the sad, perhaps pointless passion of the human.

Christy Ring made his championship debut for the Cork senior hurlers in 1940. They were dark days for the county.

THERE is a great lusting for a moral economy.

AFTER completing my doctoral dissertation on Irish neutrality, Tim Pat Coogan, the then editor of The Irish Press, wrote that his newspaper would be interested in publishing a series of articles based on the papers of David Gray, the American wartime minister to Ireland, but he added his own health warning.

An Officer and a Gentleman, that was once how the eloquent Pat Fanning, former president of the GAA, described his former Mount Sion team-mate Vin Baston, and a fitting description it was, the popular and ever-courteous Baston having reached the rank of Commandant in the Irish Defence Forces before his untimely death in 1963 at the age of 44.

KILDARE tillage farmer Laurence Flood won the overall Grain Grower prize at yesterday’s Glanbia Quality Awards in Kilkenny.

SOME economists have been hard at work this year trying to convince us that the Celtic Tiger is only taking a rest and could be back roaring at some stage in the future, a notion encapsulated in the title of Marc Coleman’s new book The Best is Yet to Come.

MOUNTLEADER Helen, the fastest of the heat winners with a 28.79 effort, made the top price at the Curraheen Park sales yesterday.

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