Carmel Collins and her family faced down violence and intimidation from gangland thugs who murdered her innocent son Roy, so that other families would not have to suffer a similar hell, her funeral mass heard today.

World premieres and prestigious touring productions will feature in the Everyman Theatre’s spring/summer season.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), the umbrella body for unions across Ireland, has warned of “a catastrophe” if the UK crashes out of the EU, while the Government’s National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) said Irish bonds have already been affected by concerns over a no deal Brexit.

It will be far more practical for our society to look at the way certain babies are ‘disallowed’, writes Victoria White

Cork-born poet, Liam Ó Muirthile, was inspired by his journey along the Camino, writes Marjorie Brennan

Ballykissangel fuelled a romantic notion of Ireland for Thomas Morris so, at 16, he left Wales to find himself an Irish woman, writes Colette Sheridan. 

Ireland will repay €5.5bn of bailout loans early to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Denmark and Sweden.

Censorship in Ireland, which was largely overturned 50 years ago, meant the public couldn’t easily get their eyes on work by our best writers, making it a badge of honour, says Donal Ó Drisceoil.

There’s always been an arty, academic, and literary vibe to the St Luke’s Cross hillside, within a steep uphill stride of Cork city centre. Auburn Villas atop of Gardiner’s Hill personifies that mix.

One of Ireland’s great hotels has issued a public appeal for help to celebrate its 120th anniversary this summer.

Eoghan O’Sullivan has all your entertainment news for the week right here.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Alannah Hopkin discusses the inspiration behind her new book of poems and songs about Cork City, On the Banks.

Gabriel Fitzmaurice describes the selection process for his book of favourite poems of Munster

From Rory Gallagher to Frank O’Connor, there’s an eclectic mix in a new anthology of Cork writings, says Colette Sheridan

Des O’Driscoll shares what’s happening in the arts scene this week

BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, says it snapped up some of the eurozone’s long-dated government bond issues recently, attracted by their relatively high yields as well as signs of economic progress in the countries concerned.

A symposium will be held at University College Cork (UCC) today to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cork-born writer Frank O’Connor’s death and to celebrate his legacy.

For the 50th anniversary of short-writer, Frank O’Connor’s death, his son is donating private correspondence to UCC, writes Colette Sheridan

Five things from the worlds of arts, culture and film to keep you occupied this week

The National Treasury Management Agency yesterday completed a large chunk of its whole year’s debt sales target by selling €3bn in a 10-year bond, at a yield of 1.156%.

The National Treasury Management Agency say they have raised €3bn through the sale of a new 10-year benchmark treasury bond.

THE Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award for 2015 has been awarded to Welsh writer Carys Davies for her second collection, The Redemption of Galen Pike.

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Piaras Beaslaí, Ryle Dwyer assesses how his biography of Michael Collins sparked a slew of rumours about the Big Fellow.

UCC’s renowned literary journal, Quarryman, is being re-launched by the university’s inaugural MA in creative writing class. 

I wish to thank Ray Ryan for his article ‘Chris Hadfield to recall a northside Cork boy’s links to the Space Age’. 

CORK actor Ciaran Bermingham’s unique selling point is that he is “a small, chubby, balding guy. There’s not many actors like me around”.

Ray Ryan explores the links between a Canadian astronaut, former US president John F Kennedy, and a boy who grew up to tell tales of Cork City’s northside.

by Lorrie Moore

MUSIC NEWS: Reginald D Hunter’s series, Songs of the South, is essential viewing for music fans tomorrow night (BBC Two, 9pm), and this second episode is all the more attractive because it is followed by a new documentary on James Brown. 

RUNNING a theatre can be a juggling act.

Opera will be to the fore in the list of top-class entertainment by the Everyman after the Cork theatre unveiled its spring and early summer schedule.

The Government remains on target to achieve €1.5bn in savings from the early repayment of IMF loans, according the NTMA’s director of funding and debt management.

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has borrowed €4bn at the record low interest rate of 0.867%.

New Selected Poems 1988-2013

A former Cork teacher who left his job to pursue a writing career is set to launch his first book.

Frank O’Connor, who lends his name to the world’s richest prize for a short story collection at this week’s Cork International Short Story Festival, was an eloquent critic of the censorship that blighted independent Ireland’s cultural landscape.

Cork poet Louis de Paor tells Alan O’Riordan how he thinks some of the richness of our cultural heritage can get lost in translation

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Three of Frank O’Connor’s stories have been combined for the stage, writes Colette Sheridan