‘SUPERFICIAL, flighty, witty and effervescent,” is how director, Michael Cabot, of London Classic Theatre, always regarded the work of Noel Coward whose play, Private Lives, is at Cork’s Everyman.

He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated, and reviled.

AFTER 30 years in film as an actor and director, Kenneth Branagh is right where he should be.

The jury at the trial of a man accused of murdering his wife at their home in Dublin in 2007 has been sent home until Monday morning.