Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West is practically a period piece now, portraying an Ireland where cheaply-framed pictures of the Pope and JFK still hang on the yellowed walls, a packet of Tayto costs 17p and the local priest drops by to sip poitín at the kitchen table.

As Colm Tóibín appears on the famed BBC radio show, Richard Fitzpatrick looks at the selections of Irish stars who have already made the trip

The last time this house, Stone Lodge, was on the market it sold within a week, writes Rose Martin.

GARDAÍ are hunting a large, bald man who viciously attacked two middle-aged female tourists just yards from Leinster House in the centre of Dublin.