Faced with stone from Sneem, facing down to Derrynane and Kenmare Bay, and facing up to Dark Sky Reserve stars and nighttime galaxies via a diamond-shaped feature window, all to a musical backdrop of bass notes heard through open doors from an Art Deco baby grand piano once owned by booming-voiced English actor Brian Blessed... truly, there’s a lot going on to engage the senses at Arcadia.

Joe Murphy was one of three IRA Volunteers who died on hunger strike in jails in 1920.

Leicester kept their slim Heineken Champions Cup hopes alive by securing a four-try bonus point in a thrilling 36-26 defeat to Racing 92 in Paris.

By Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Political Correspondent

The Project Twins, James and Michael Fitzgerald, take part in the Print Symposium.

The family of the baby who died after being left unattended in a car for several hours are being comforted by relatives and neighbours as they attempted to come to terms with the tragedy.

Yvonne O’Toole, whose nine-year-old son Jake is autistic, began phoning Irish Autism Action (IAA) three years ago for help, but she has still to receive a call back.

Irish parents are sending children to a clinic in Bulgaria for dangerous treatments that “cure” autism.

A number of priests are to be moved to new parishes in the diocese of Cloyne as others take time out to study.

One hundred and thirty new jobs are being created in Cork in a customer service centre for Sky.

Concerns have been raised about the awarding of a €50m contract to run Irish Water’s call centre.

Carlyle Cardinal Ireland has made what is believed to be its biggest ever investment, in Abtran — a major employer in Cork and Dublin.

Kehlan Kirwan looks at the Web Summit, at Ireland’s self-deprecation, and why we are losing much more than just an event on the calendar.

Some 150 jobs are to be created with the expansion of two companies in Dublin and Shannon.

A Co Antrim man is recovering in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Vincents Hospital in Sydney, following a single-punch assault which left him in a critical condition.

A 32-year-old Irish man is in a critical condition in hospital in Australia, after he was allegedly punched once in the head by his older brother.

An Irish tourist has been left in a critical condition in Australia after allegedly being hit by his own brother.

A nurse — a mother-of-two on her way to work — died in an early morning crash yesterday which also claimed the life of an elderly driver.

An off-duty garda received life-changing brain injuries from an unprovoked punch to the head when on a night out with his new wife in Limerick, a court has heard.

Carrigtwohill 1-21 Bride Rovers 2-13

At the launch of Fine Gael’s local election campaign, Frances Fitzgerald sent the candidates out to do battle on the doorsteps with a speech beginning with the declaration that most people get into politics in order to change things.

A management application used to generate sales, which now has more than 3,000 users and is quickly expanding to Britain, the US, and Australia, began its development on a tissue, writes Trish Dromey.

Limerick footballers are unlikely to have any representation in Munster’s Interprovincial football panel next month in what is a further protest at the seeded nature of this year’s draw.

A special Secret Service mission ordered by John F Kennedy involved a search for a precious heirloom from the old family homestead in Bruff, it was recalled yesterday in the Co Limerick town.

An independent TD has condemned a smoking ban on the grounds of a 355-bed hospital, branding it “silly, stupid, and insane’’.

Adare 2-17 Doon 2-15

A plan to tackle suicide in a part of the country with the highest rate of people taking their own lives has been launched.

Bruff emerged in brilliant sunshine yesterday to stake its rightful place in the heritage of the Kennedy clan.

People who don’t pay the water charge could face disconnection, Phil Hogan, the environment minister, indicated yesterday.

HSE cutbacks are forcing hospitals to treat public patients in mixed-gender wards — a situation support groups claim is an affront to their dignity.

HSE officials cannot justify paying millions of euro for expert legal defences during patient lawsuits while claiming it cannot provide adequate elderly home help care because of a lack of money.

A shortage of beds was directly responsible for the cancellation of more than 170 operations at Kerry General Hospital (KGH) between 2010 and 2012.

Sean Lacey won his fifth straight Lacey Cup in Tralee yesterday, edging out Michael Fitzgerald (Fermoy CC) and talented junior Dylan O’Brien (O’Leary’s Stone Kanturk CC) after 76 kilometres of hilly racing.

A stout defence of the controversial ‘black card’ recommended by the Football Development Committee was made by chairman Eugene McGee at last evening’s Munster Convention.

Clare’s Robert Frost will succeed Sean Walsh as Munster Council chairman this evening.

CECILY Brennan’s punchy paintings of angry red limbs torn up with eczema are so convincing that staff from UCC’s Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) praised their accuracy.

A family whose 14-year-old son died after falling into a coma in a Garda station 10 years ago, were last night “devastated and shocked” after an older son was shot dead in an early morning attack.

A man has appeared in court charged with assault causing harm to an off-duty garda in Limerick.

Sarsfields 2-20 Carrigtwohill 2-10

The Health Service Executive has accepted the situation is urgent regarding ear, nose and throat (ENT) services at Kerry General Hospital.

The HSE will not be able to appoint a consultant rheumatologist to address chronic waiting lists at Kerry General this year unless the hospital manages to “pay off its own bills”.