Opening with the arrival of a flustered White Rabbit and ending with the murder of a Red Queen, Gerald Barry’s pick-and-mix of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books was a hysterical hour of operatic delirium.

Words find themselves with new meanings all the time, but it’s the speed with which they are changing that Colm O’Regan has concerns with this week.

Welcome to 2017. Already it’s better than last year simply because it’s not 2016, even if some of you are probably still a little fragile this morning.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”

The real damage caused by the Apple decision is the toxicity of uncertainty it imposes on Ireland’s corporate offering, perhaps for years,’ writes Gerard Howlin

SINN FÉIN have always insisted that their version of the past is at least as valid as any other — no matter what they imagine it to be. 

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It was an almost universal rite of passage in pre-pastoral culture that young men were sent to the forest or savannah, jungle or distant mountain range to single-handedly kill the wolf, the lion, the grizzly bear or whichever animal represented the greatest challenge to his community. If that young man returned with a trophy, his path to life’s next milestone was open and success a possibility. If he did not, it was no more than evolution in action and the tribe moved on.

IT’S a reflection, presumably, of our uncertainty about the world’s immediate future in these times of economic recessions and global warming, but Another Earth (12A) is the second film this year, after Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, to feature a new planet appearing in the solar system.

I must admit I was a bit wary of 'Puss in Boots', Dreamworks Animation's spin-off of its blockbuster 'Shrek' franchise.

Will Ferrell and Zach Galafianakis have signed up to work on an unnamed political comedy.

A LONG and detailed debate but still no resolution to the Limerick hurling crisis – that was the outcome of last night’s monthly county board meeting in Claughaun.

TRANSPORT Minister Martin Cullen “robbed” Cork Airport of €100 million on the same day he announced funding of €22.3m for an airport in his own Waterford constituency, the Dáil has heard.

AN ARGUMENT being put forward to justify the impeachment of Judge Brian Curtin is that circumstances have rendered it impossible for him to continue on the bench.

Devolution in Northern Ireland will only return if the nationalist SDLP is prepared to exclude Sinn Fein from power sharing, a hardline Ulster Unionist insisted today.