IT’S been a rare Irish summer of glorious sunshine and so the Gate Theatre’s new production of A Streetcar Named Desire couldn’t arrive at a more apt time.

Derval O'Rourke and Fionnuala Britton will lead a weakened Irish team in the European Team championship next week.

Joe Dowling is back at the Abbey to direct an adaptation of James Joyce’s classic short story The Dead. He talks to Pádraic Killeen

I became an actor for one reason — because I loved it.

CBC advanced to Sunday’s Barry Cup final with rivals PBC after an emphatic 25-5 win over Crescent College at Lansdowne yesterday.

ON an afternoon when young Michael Quinlivan offered a glimpse into the future for Tipperary football, it was a more established forward who eased the Premier County into the McGrath Cup quarter-finals.

LAST year’s defeated All-Ireland finalists Down may have been the hottest of favourites coming into Ennis on Saturday against a Clare team hammered by Cork in the Munster championship.

Down 1-13 Clare 1-12

PLANS for a futuristic exhibition centre — projected to attract 73,000 visitors annually and create 16 jobs in Kenmare — were unveiled in the south Kerry town, last night.

YOU’RE not supposed to like The Sound of Music.

There was confusion tonight over the fate of a potentially historic antique pistol reluctantly handed over to gardai during a gun amnesty.

A ROW erupted yesterday over the appointment of a retired politician to the Port of Cork board.

SHAKESPEARE got it spot on: “All the world’s a stage...”

CONOR FITZGERALD is to miss Limerick’s historic Allianz NFL Division One campaign.