Local actor Cathy Belton is proud to be leading the charge at the Galway Arts Festival, writes Padraic Killeen

The Abbey Theatre last year plunged into the red due to restructuring costs and a 12% drop in box office receipts to record a loss of €340,196.

IRISH actress Fiona Shaw has landed a plum role in hit US TV series True Blood.

Sport has got it badly wrong in the new reality where people are going to count every cent, and the era of building big stadia, and expecting to charge high prices to fill them, is over.