AFTER a humdrum week of cup football, one question jostled for attention above all others: What has become of the great English love of mime?

WHAT is it about Irish governments and overseas funding?

MICHAEL JACKSON toured around Cork as late as 2007 hoping to find an idyllic hideaway where his children could have as normal an upbringing as possible.

IN THE WORLD of street entertainment, if there is one thing worse than a fella mangling Bob Dylan — and in the world of street entertainment, there’s always a fella mangling Bob Dylan — it’s someone pretending to be trapped in an invisible box or, how droll, passing themselves off as the Statue of Liberty.

IN THE WORLD of street entertainment, if there is one thing worse than a fella mangling Bob Dylan — and in the world of street entertainment, there’s always a fella mangling Bob Dylan — it’s someone pretending to be trapped in an invisible box or, how droll, passing themselves off as the Statue of Liberty.

IT can truly be said that the great French mime artist, Marcel Marceau, lived and died by the old adage ‘silence is golden’.

HUNDREDS of mourners paid a final tribute yesterday to Marcel Marceau, the world-famous mime artist, who was buried in Paris.

French mime Marcel Marceau was buried in a simple ceremony today at Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery, taking his place alongside other giants of the arts also buried there.

Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported today. He was 84.