Julie Sharkey stars in the Everyman’s production of Dancing at Lughnasa, writes Colette Sheridan

Electric Ireland Munster MFC final

The fixture was level six times.

It’s the end of an era for Irish theatre as Michael Colgan bows out at the Gate. He tells Alan O’Riordan about an eventful 33 years

A man who died of injuries suffered in a road traffic accident was buried before a coroner had been informed of his death.

Skibbereen CS 5-9 Scoil Phobail Sliabh Luachra 1-11: A deluge of goals brought the new Skibbereen CS their first Corn Uí Mhuirí win as they triumphed at Kilmurry yesterday, but it wasn’t enough to prevent their elimination.

Scoil na Tríonóide Naofa of Doon topped Group A of the Dr Harty Cup (Munster PPS U18½AHC) as they overcame CBC Cork by 0-12 to 0-10 at Charleville yesterday.

Promotion/Relegation play-off second leg: Drogheda United 3 Wexford Youths 0 (Drogheda win 3-2 on agg). Drogheda United secured a swift return to the Premier Division as Pete Mahon’s side ran out 3-0 winners against Wexford Youths at United Park last night, ensuring a 3-2 aggregate win. 

Bohemians 1 Wexford Youths 0: A regular scorer of spectacular goals, Kurtis Byrne was happy to oblige with a tap-in as Bohemians got back to winning ways at Dalymount Park.

Finn Harps 0, Wexford Youths 1: Substitute Aidan Keenan headed in a dramatic 85th-minute winner as Wexford Youths bagged three crucial points in their battle to avoid the drop as they overcame Finn Harps at Finn Park.

Unseemly ráméis has been coming from the grandstands of the Irish establishment about the limitations of new politics, writes Gerard Howlin.

Wexford Youths 0, Cork City 1: Cork City maintained their pressure on leaders Dundalk with a hard-earned victory over a battling Wexford Youths side at Ferrycarrig Park yesterday afternoon.

Bafta award-winning Irish actor Stephen Rea says the Government has let down the arts.

Bohemians 3 Wexford Youths 3: Mark Quigley scored a late penalty to cruelly deprive Wexford Youths of a deserved first Premier Division victory.

The families of some of the eight men killed in a road crash in Co Donegal almost six years ago have expressed their frustration with the remit of the coroner’s court after a unlawful killing verdict last evening from a jury hearing the case.

The man behind Ireland's worst ever car crash will be back in court today for a fresh sentence hearing after his two-year jail term was set aside on appeal.

Cork-born Cónal Creedon is a novelist, playwright and documentary film maker. His latest book, The Immortal Deed Of Michael O’Leary, is an account of a man from Inchigeelagh, Co Cork, who became a hero of the First World War.

The late Brian Friel should have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, according to the director of the Abbey Theatre.

Pobalscoil Sliabh Luachra, Rathmore 4-12 Pobalscoil Chorcha Dhuibhne 2-9: Sliabh Luachra Rathmore caused a major upset in the opening round of this season’s Munster Colleges, Corn Ui Mhuiri Group C, with a comprehensive win over the Corn Uí Mhuirí winners of the last four years, Corca Dhuibhne.

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Literary great Brian Friel was buried yesterday on a hillside outside a Co Donegal town where many of his works were set.

THE tributes, from everyone from the Glenties Drama Group to Meryl Streep, paid to playwright Brian Friel since his death on Friday were as deserved as they were heartfelt.

President Michael D Higgins led tributes to his friend, playwright Brian Friel who died yesterday at his home in Greencastle, Co Donegal, at the age of 86.

WE are warned not to speak ill of the dead and we often indulge in polite fictions to avoid conflict. In Brian Friels’s case such evasions are unnecessary, his life and work are very easy to celebrate.

THE writer Brian Friel, who died aged 86 yesterday, did as much as anyone, and far, far more than most, to try to help us untangle our ideas of ourselves and how we are inescapably the children of our past.

Fastnet Equity is considering spinning out its Irish exploration assets into a separate entity, in a bid to derive future shareholder value from them.

ON THE occasion of its 25th anniversary, a new production of Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa begins a four-day run An Grianán in Letterkenny tonight.

Irish companies are losing millions in intellectual property assets, a leading law academic has claimed.

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Kerry 3-12 Cork 1-5 Munster U16 Football