Our exchange of salutations with Conor McCarthy in Killarney on Saturday was a brief one. 

This week, I chatted briefly with the aunt of an Irish soccer international. As usual, the arm was the opener. “What did you do to the arm?”

US actress Lindsay Lohan is to make her stage debut in London’s West End in a play about the movie business.

OWEN Roe is one of Irish theatre’s most prized actors.

If I wasn’t an actor, I would love to have been the best saxophonist ever.

Pulitzer Prize- winning play Glengarry Glen Ross’s grasping salesmen are a metaphor of our times, says Padraic Killeen

Comedian Frankie Boyle will have shows in Cork and Dublin next December.

IT’S NICE when you can bring people together isn’t it? The other two (no prizes for guessing) have been sniping away at each other all season. Enter the Scousers, and all is harmony once more. Ah, bliss.