Dan Buckley savours some father/son bonding time in the stunning Lake Garda

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Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile’s torn between choosing the washing machines and the computer as the most useful invention.

Game of Thrones returns to Sky Atlantic on Monday at 9pm.

The Mews Restaurant, Baltimore, West Cork

MAURICE SEEZER is a songwriter, film music composer and founding committee member of the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival.

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As head butler at London’s Savoy Hotel, Irishman Sean Davoren pampers the wealthy, indulges

SHE’S probably the most successful neophiliac ever.

What I do: Actor

Suzanne Harrington reads Richard Burton’s just published diaries — and reveals what they expose about one of Hollywood’s most notorious marriages.

Cork Opera House has launched its autumn and winter season, an eclectic mix of musical and theatrical events as the theatre seeks to make good on the success of its summer musical, The Sound of Music.

What I do: I am a soprano and a traditional Irish musician.

MY DAUGHTER comes into the kitchen from the sitting room, where she’s been watching Snog, Marry, Avoid, and asks me why there are so few women politicians.

JOAN SUTHERLAND, one of the 20th Century’s greatest opera singers, has died aged 83.

BRITISH maestro Edward Downes, who conducted the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Opera has died with his wife, Joan, at anassisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. He was 85 and she was 74.

Singer Rufus Wainwright has been commissioned to compose his debut opera, to be premiered in the UK, it was announced today.

OSCAR-NOMINATED Daniel Day-Lewis is among the big screen stars turning out at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival.

Oscars-nominated Daniel Day-Lewis is among the big screen stars turning out at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival, it was revealed tonight.

Celine Dion dreams of winning an Oscar for portraying the late opera star Maria Callas in a Hollywood biopic of the soprano.

FROM Fortress Lansdowne to Castle Croker, Ireland’s first home and away soccer match was as much a voyage of discovery for the fans as the footballers.

RENATA TEBALDI, the Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died yesterday. She was 82.

Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died today, her doctor said. She was 82.

Madonna has her sights set on buying a Greek island from multibillionairess Athina Onassis, according to reports.

Opera star Katherine Jenkins will sing the British national anthem at this year’s Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, it was announced today.

Faye Dunaway says she wants Al Pacino to co-star with her in a new film about the life of Maria Callas.