Jim Cooney owns and runs Cooney’s Bookshop, at the Mall, South Square, Macroom, Co Cork.

The BBC has announced to staff that Cork's Fergal Keane is to step back from his role as BBC News Africa Editor, due to the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Remembered as an actor, comedian, raconteur and mimic without parallel, Niall Tóibín died today after a long illness, a week shy of his 90th birthday.

I don’t want to frighten or alarm you this week, but I have yet to receive a cent of my Basic Farm Payment or Disadvantaged Payment.

Brenda Woulfe owns Woulfe’s Bookshop in the town of Listowel,Co Kerry

Sell-out nights for Druid Theatre’s productions of John B Keane’s Sive and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot helped its box office income to climb by 38%, to €1.3m last year.

For his debut novel, Meath author Oisín Fagan stepped back in time to imagine the aftermath of the Black Death in Ireland. It could be the next Game of Thrones, writes Ed Power.

The playwright John Millington Synge had a great grá for the Irish language, once declaring: “There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”

Majella Moynihan told her story this week and joins the likes of Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, and Eileen Flynn as women who were failed by the State, writes Dan Buckley

The annual Listowel Writer's Week, founded by the late John B Keane and Bryan McMahon which takes place each year over the June Bank holiday weekend opened last night for its 49th year.

Multi-award winning journalist Fergal Keane will receive a Cork Hall of Fame award at the upcoming Cork Person of the Year Gala Awards.

The most obvious starting point when exploring the myths surrounding Munster’s historic win over New Zealand is the attendance. At least I can honestly declare that “yes, I was there”, a claim that many in the years that followed that famous encounter deemed to imagine.

As John B Keane’s masterwork The Field shows we have a close relationship with the land we live on.

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy led tributes last night following the death of a giant of Irish theatre, Dan Donovan, who helped foster Murphy’s love of theatre and acting.

I went to see an excellent production of Sive in the Gaiety Theatre recently. Written by John B Keane in the 1950s, it tells the story of a teenage girl who is sold into marriage with a much older, albeit wealthy man, and is one of my favourite plays, writes Louise O’Neill.

Many stars from the worlds of music, film and television were lost in 2017.

Brendan Gleeson tells Esther McCarthy about the fun he had working on ‘Paddington 2’, and his mixed feelings about Cork GAA.

THE death of actor Michael Twomey has robbed the nation of a theatrical legend and his family, friends and fans of one of the funniest, most engaging and talented comics that Ireland has ever produced.

Warm tributes have been paid to theatre giant Michael Twomey — one half of the legendary comedy duo Cha and Miah — who died yesterday aged 84.

A beef farmer from Curraghawaddra whom I met in Macroom over the weekend asked me if this business of writing something for the paper every week was “a bit like a priest putting together his sermon?”

Michael Twomey may be best known for Cha and Miah, but his reflections on over 70 years in Cork theatre include some incredible history, writes Jo Kerrigan

1. Fairy Hunt

Many Young Men Of 20 is being revived at the Everyman, so Jo Kerrigan looks back on the original Cork-Kerry collaborations that saw the Listowel master’s plays performed on Leeside.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that Dublin are suddenly going to fall away now, writes Mike Quirke.

After being to Hollywood and back, Patrick Bergin is happy to be playing a detective in his hometown for the current series of Red Rock, writes Esther McCarthy.

Like a Trumpian election, or a Brexit vote, the public element of Dancing with the Stars has given vent to deep prejudices which reflect badly on large swathes of the nation, writes Michael Clifford

1. French Fancy

Gibert O’Sullivan, Tommy Tiernan, and a wealth of opera, musicals, and theatre are just some of the highlights at Cork Opera House this year.

The Everyman, the famous Victorian theatre in Cork, is celebrating 120 years of entertainment with 12 special anniversary shows this year.

Kerry County Council has honoured poet Brendan Kennelly, who has returned to live in his native ‘Bally’, or Ballylongford, a place “full of stories”, after an absence of more than half a century.

1) Bachelor Boy

The subject of breeding is not something I frequently broach on this page, for fear of frightening away the more timid reader.

Situated in the townland of Dromerin, 6km west of Listowel in Co Kerry, a 104-acre farm is being presented to the market by Tralee-based auctioneers DNG WH Giles Property.

As a society we can’t afford to designate the 20s as a second decade of adolescence, writes Victoria White