The increasing frequency of extreme weather events worldwide is the focus of a symposium being held in Galway today aimed at enhancing the international scope of Irish climate change research.

Gabriel Fitzmaurice describes the selection process for his book of favourite poems of Munster

Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.

The majority of international fund managers expect the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in September.

Dermot Bolger talks to Tony Clayton-Lea about his new book Tanglewood and how he believes that the introduction of free secondary education in the late 1960s was at the root of the 1980s burst of Irish creativity.

An anthology of poets who were born in the province after 1960 is the first since the late Sean Dunne’s 1985 guide, says Colette Sheridan

Theo Dorgan’s new poetry collection, Nine Bright Shiners, utilises nautical metaphor to remember nine dead friends and loved-ones, says Thomas McCarthy.

IN 1970, fresh out of St Colman’s boarding school, I attended UCC.

Confidence in the eurozone economy is continuing to pick up pace, with investors’ bullishness towards European stocks reaching a six-year high, according to latest research.

Savage Solitude

Francis Humphrys tells Nicki ffrench Davis about overseeing Bantry’s three summer festivals

The first feature from Cork filmmaker Pat Collins continues his documentary style of evoking a strong sense of place, says Alan O’Riordan

While the pen may be mightier than the sword, an Irish literary giant has for the second time this year proven his mettle against robust attack.

INTERNATIONAL investors foresee a “significant” slowdown in the global economy over the next year, but do not feel the world is headed for another recession, according to a report.

POET Paul Durcan will unveil a sculpture of the late Michael Hartnett during this year’s Eigse Michael Hartnett which opens in Newcastle West, Co Limerick today.

PULITZER prize winning US poet Jorie Graham will lead distinguished literary figures who will take part in a festival to honour Co Limerick poet, Michael Hartnett.

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IN between all the empty debate and petty disputes and rows and static and scandal and point-scoring and personality disputes and constituency infighting, you get rare reminders politics can still concern itself with — to paraphrase Otto von Bismarck — the art of the possible.