Unless you are up with the lark and reading this in the dawning light, you might have to rush to the first open viewings of 52 Leslies Arch: This three-storey mid-terrace townhouse is an open book today, on view at 10.45am, for a half-hour window only.

Irish designer Diarmuid Gavin has backed a black Chelsea Flower Show designer who complained that gardening is filled with “double-barrelled” people.

I’m looking forward to returning to Dublin, this time with Guys and Dolls.

ARTS and crafts — three little words that strike fear into the hearts of parents everywhere. 

A modern day Romeo and Juliet separated by the Atlantic Ocean…

Actor Timothy West says he has spoken openly about his wife’s Alzheimer’s because “not to do it would be dishonest”.

READERS might wonder why Shakespeare would relate the pretty plant aconitum with ‘rash gunpowder’, as he does in Henry IV Part 2. 

Ciara O’Sullivan was present at GAA headquarters for the first three of Cork’s All-Ireland final wins, standing in awe as Juliet Murphy lifted the Brendan Martin Cup September after September after September.

This is one of those things you will either think is a pretty good idea, or it will make you unreasonably angry with the world.

In her early 20s Maria was in a folk group, and she started writing lyrics, and some poetry. But it wasn’t until 2004, when she joined a creative writing group that she started taking writing seriously.

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Wayne Jordan has had fun with his production of Romeo and Juliet, writes Padraic Killeen

Irish actor Aidan Turner tells Ed Power how his role as Kili the dwarf became part of a major storyline in The Hobbit trilogy.

Kya deLongchamps revels in a book which uses fascinating visual material from Irish mansions to illustrate life at that time and the dynastic tales behind the scenes

Nollaig Cleary leans against the dressing room wall in Caherlag, joking that a full year has passed since a dictaphone was last thrust in her direction.

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Mormon rockers The Killers have triumphed in the baffle of the bands — after their hit ‘Human’ was judged to have the most bewildering song lyric.

A darkly comic tale of abandoned psychiatric patients will be a visceral experience for audiences, says Enter Juliet writer Ronan Fitzgibbon of Broken Crow Theatre Company.

Kevin Markham admits that there were times when he got fed-up with the whole thing.

At just 19 years of age, Cork star Doireann O’Sullivan already boasts a career CV that is the envy of many.

Poet Catherine Phil MacCarthy is in Minnesota this week.

The arts and sciences might not often merge in universities, but a medical consultant has combined them in a unique way for an exhibition at UCC’s school of medicine.

Babytalk is Ireland’s first festival of expert advice for parents, says Margaret Carragher

IT’S Thursday afternoon and Olwen Fouere and Owen Roe have just gotten out of bed. “We were pretending to have sex,” says Fouere, reassuringly emphasising the “pretending”.

Nollaig Cleary had plans. Grand, grand plans. The 32-year-old signed off on a most demanding, yet enjoyable chapter last January and was more than ready, more than willing to live life outside the red and white of Cork.

Kerry manager William O’Sullivan fears that Cork’s spectacular comeback against Dublin could spell trouble for the Kingdom in Saturday’s All-Ireland Ladies senior football semi-final.

An average of 10,000 people a year send letters to the Italian city of Verona, asking romantic advice of Shakespeare’s tragic teenage girl, the personification of young love, says Richard Fitzpatrick

From a bistro in Paris to a kayak in West Cork, Pól Ó Conghaile reveals his top romantic places, as Valentine’s Day approaches

An Irish music website is to present what it says are Ireland's first unsigned music awards next month.

Jay Duffy, 16, the son of Boyzone star Keith, has landed the role of a lifetime, he tells Colette Sheridan

Croke Park tomorrow will not be hosting the only Cork-Donegal clash of the weekend.

A widow yesterday saw the final chapter close on a tragic night over 27 years ago when she witnessed her then 17-year-old only daughter die from an asthma attack after being rushed to a Limerick hospital.

The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark judgement upholding the constitutionality of a law that allows teenage boys - but not teenage girls - to be prosecuted for having underage sex.

OROMEO, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

Paul Giamatti has bagged a role in a new adaptation of 'Romeo And Juliet'.

Emma Watson wants to work on a Shakespeare adaptation.

JULIET MURPHY casts her eyes upwards and her mind back, trying to recall when it was.

CHRISTY MULLINS won the opening round of the Con Kelleher-Dan Hurley Cup with a convincing win over James O’Donovan at Drimoleague.

Hammer Films, that most British of outfits that brought us some wonderful – and wonderfully awful – horror films in the 1960s-70s, continues its revival with this second outing, though with the action moved from the foggy mists of Victorian England to contemporary New York.

IRISH-BORN residents of Christchurch spoke last night of the horror they witnessed when the devastating earthquake struck New Zealand’s second largest city.