On this day, 100 years ago, 4,000 workers marched through Dublin, demanding recognition by employers for the ITGWU and the reinstatement of striking employees.

A new Festival of Traditional Irish Breeding will be held as part of the horse section at next weekend’s two day Limerick Show.

It may be hard to believe today, but the first mobile call, made on the streets of New York in 1973, was met with gasps and stares, writes John Daly

The Irish actor, Milo O’Shea, has died after a short illness.

It would be fair to assume Goresbridge might have reservations about Horse Sport Ireland’s plan to launch a dedicated website for horse vendors which is aimed at attracting foreign custom.

Who owns 1916 and what can we learn from the 1966 50th celebrations of the Rising wonders Diarmaid Ferriter

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

AT HIS address on the opening night of RTÉ, 50 years ago today, President Éamon de Valera worried that TV might “lead through demoralisation to decadence and disillusion”.

Biography

There’s about 900 sq ft of space to play with at the No 5 cottage at Coolmore.

THE late writer, Hugh Leonard, received the traditional applause of the theatre world at his funeral mass in Dalkey yesterday at what mourners were told was his “final curtain call”.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

The funeral of award-winning playwright Hugh Leonard is taking place in Dublin today.

The removal takes place this evening of the late writer Hugh Leonard, who died last week at the age of 82.

President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen have paid tribute to playwright and self-styled curmudgeon Hugh Leonard.

The award-winning playwright Hugh Leonard has died in Dublin at the age of 82.

It was ten years ago this year, the unforgettable drama of Big Fella Thanks and his hugely popular Derby win for the O’Driscoll clan of Skibbereen; in the big stand that day, on one of my regular tours around Powerstown, I bumped into Kevin O’Shea.

GROUPS from Waterford and Clare won the two major awards at the 56th North Cork Drama Festival in Charleville.

Four of Ireland’s renowned playwrights have joined forces with four celebrated actors for the Dublin Theatre Festival, it emerged today.

A decade of Irish writers will be honoured tonight with the launch of a major anthology in Dublin.

GOOD taste is evident in an extended cottage lodge to Coolmore House, the large period home used during the filming of the TV series Good Behaviour.

JAMES PLUNKETT, acclaimed author of the epic Strumpet City and lifelong labour activist, was yesterday remembered as a gentleman of incredible talent, following his death.