Exactly what moral principle is upheld by keeping an accused man offscreen is not easy to deduce, writes Terry Prone

The woman who first spoke out against former Gate Theatre artistic director, Michael Colgan, says she is glad he is considering his past behaviour.

Update 9.30pm: Grace Dyas, the first woman to come out with allegations against Michael Colgan has responded to his apology on TV3’s The Sunday Show.

In an interview this morning on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, Grace Dyas said that misuse of power was an open secret in Irish public life.

One of the women who accused former Gate director Michael Colgan of inappropriate behaviour has said she will not engage with the independent expert appointed to examine the issue.

Latest: One of the women who has accused Michael Colgan of inappropriate behaviour has said she will not engage with an independent HR expert appointed by the Gate Theatre.

Board members and senior staff of arts and culture organisations are to be sent on workshops on bullying, abuse of power, and sexual harassment in the workplace in the wake of the allegations against former Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan

The Gate Theatre received €860,000 in public money in 2017, despite Taoiseach Leo Varadkar describing it as a “private body”.

The National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI) has called for an independent investigation into allegations of harassment at the Gate Theatre, against its former director Michael Colgan.

The National Women's Council is calling for an independent investigation into the conduct and behaviour of Michael Colgan while CEO of the Gate Theatre.

A number of women who allege they have been the victims of “abuse of power” at the hands of former Gate Theatre director Michael Colgan have said they will not avail of a confidential email address offered by the theatre to detail their experiences.

It’s the end of an era for Irish theatre as Michael Colgan bows out at the Gate. He tells Alan O’Riordan about an eventful 33 years

Michael Gambon who connected with young and not so young Harry Potter fans worldwide as their beloved Albus Dumbledore is to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Film and Television Academy.

Dublin’s Gate Theatre made a loss last year, which cut into its accumulated profits, newly-filed accounts reveal.

“Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence”.

She was a woman of many names. Also known as ‘Mary O’Connor’, ‘Mary the Shop’, and ‘Mary the Pensioner’, it was the title of ‘Mary John B’ that charmed her the most.

A REVIVAL of Tom Murphy’s magnificent play, The Gigli Concert, begins in the Gate Theatre tonight, and for Denis Conway, the show is a case of déjà vu.

The combined pay for the country’s best-paid arts administrator, artistic director of the Gate Theatre, Michael Colgan, and a fellow director decreased last year by almost €20,000 or 7% to €269,006.

The issues raised by Chief Justice Susan Denham when she warned that some of the best candidates for the bench might not wish to become judges because High Court pay levels have become relatively unattractive, echoes a dilemma having an impact right across society.

Tributes are being paid to one of Ireland's best known stage actresses, Susan Fitzgerald, who has passed away after an illness.

DURING the preamble to I’ll Go On, Barry McGovern peered out at the audience. “You can’t leave,” he said, “because you’re afraid it might be worse elsewhere.” The pained laughter continued for 90 minutes.

The world of acting is a hard graft and actors need buckets of perseverance, says Shane Nestor

Pic 1: Broadcaster Gay Byrne and his wife Kathleen Watkins at the opening night of Declan Hughes’s play Last Summer, in the Gate Theatre.

One of the reasons I act is because I love figuring out a character.

Actor David Kelly got one final standing ovation as his coffin was carried out of his local parish church at the end of his funeral Mass in Dublin yesterday.

Stars of the stage and screen turned out today to bid a fond farewell to actor David Kelly.

NOT quite London’s Palladium, but Dublin’s brand new National Convention Centre came pretty close last night as it hosted an Irish-style Royal Variety Performance to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Ireland.

A CHARMING and classic Edwardian Dublin property, home to theatre director Michael Colgan and his actor wife Susan FitzGerald, is for sale in select Rathgar, and its even more select Orwell Park.

CUSTOMS officials have already seized 53 firearms and offensive weapons this year, including 17 weapons in the mail.

Irish theatre director Michael Colgan today said he was truly surprised to be awarded an honorary OBE by the British queen.

Playwright Brian Friel and Dublin’s Gate Theatre were today celebrating winning a prestigious critics award at the Edinburgh International Festival.

THERE is a truly international makeup to the nationalities involved in trafficking cocaine into Ireland.

NIGERIANS are by far the single biggest national group arrested for trafficking cocaine into the country.

THE late writer, Hugh Leonard, received the traditional applause of the theatre world at his funeral mass in Dalkey yesterday at what mourners were told was his “final curtain call”.

The extinction of playwright and columnist Hugh Leonard’s dazzling energy has left Ireland a poorer place, his funeral heard today.

THE future of Seán Dunne’s business empire remains uncertain after An Bord Pleanála (ABP) yesterday refused planning permission for the property developer’s high-rise development at the former Jury’s Berkeley Court site in Ballsbridge.

SUPPORTERS of a controversial high-rise development in Ballsbridge claim there is no planning justification for refusing the 37-storey building proposed by property developer Seán Dunne.

LIMERICK’S galleries, theatres and castles will host free cultural events on September 19 which has been designated Culture Night in the city.

A production of one of the world’s best known theatrical masterpieces will visit the length and breadth of the country this autumn.

IRELAND is going to get a share of the multi-tonne cocaine shipments constantly hitting the west coast of Europe, the customs drugs boss said yesterday.

A Samuel Beckett play is to go on the biggest tour ever seen in Ireland.

THE head of the Customs drugs unit poured cold water yesterday on claims that drug traffickers monitored the location of the state’s sole mobile scanner to determine which port to send their shipments.

THERE is a “growing threat” of maritime drug smuggling along the Irish coastline, the customs drug chief said yesterday.