Once upon a time we all knew what censorship was, who the good and bad guys were, and what could be done to make the world a better place.

The arts festival in Galway has a series of talks and discussions on the subject of ‘home’. Here, three of the participants offer Richard Fitzpatrick their thoughts.

Phone company Eircom has been fined €10,500 after it admitting overcharging customers.

Football and hurling fans have been warned to buy their tickets for the season’s remaining All-Ireland fixtures only from official sources, after the GAA cancelled a number of tickets on secondary selling websites.

Stand and terrace ticket prices for the All-Ireland football quarter-finals as well as both football and hurling semi-finals have all increased by €5 — but the GAA have confirmed admission for the finals will remain frozen.

Ten years on from the events of Prometheus, Alien: Covenant (16s), the fifth offering in the Alien franchise, opens with the spaceship Covenant responding to what appears to be a human signal from an Earth-like planet.

I see that I can’t see the Milky Way as I used to. It may be my eyes, but it seems I’m not the only one. 

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

We get it, theatre audtions are tough. But what happens when your candidate has an almost perfect resumé and you just can't quite figure out what's going so wrong?

The GAA has “never done more” to tackle touts selling tickets at astronomical rates ahead of tomorrow’s All- Ireland football final.

The GAA is to make a proposal to the Government seeking to prevent bookmakers from offering odds on games involving players under the age of 18.

“No one is impressed by dinosaurs anymore, ”says Claire (Dallas Bryce Howard), the manager of Jurassic World (12A).

GAA chiefs have revealed that a heavy grass seeding programme has resulted in the increased presence of pigeons in Croke Park in recent weeks.

All The Wild Wonders. Poems Of Our Earth

Polly Samson’s novel The Kindness is built around a family secret — the suicide of a beloved uncle. She tells Sue Leonard about it and what it’s like to write songs for her husband David Gilmour’s band Pink Floyd.

FBD Connacht League: Roscommon 0-14 IT Sligo 0-5

Roger McGough’s poems convey the beauty of everyday language, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Tennis: Sam Barry will take a three week break to recharge his batteries after his semi-final exit in the Irish Men’s Open.

No championship football referee was reprimanded at Wednesday night’s meeting of match officials.

Corduroy Boy - An extract

Album: The Henry Girls

Eighteen years have passed since the Rugby World Cup brought a bitterly divided country together and provided an impetus for what would become the ‘Rainbow Nation’.

GAA players charged with drug offences will be banned from playing with their club or county until the outcome of their case, under strict new guidelines.

The GAA are better equipped to counter commercial scams off the back of successful county teams, according to head of media relations Alan Milton.

The GAA have received no information to back up Jim McGuinness’ claims that Gaelic footballers are being placed in “a very dangerous position”.

At some point this week, in domiciles all around Monaghan, people will remember the glossy publication they clenched tightly in Clones yesterday and rescue it from whatever car, dustbin or pocket they last left it after a day of unfettered celebration.

AT March’s Congress, a central GAA motion calling for teams to be issued to Director General Páraic Duffy for delivery to the media by 12pm four days prior to a Championship game failed to receive the required two-thirds backing by 4%.

Richard Mosse’s installation at the Venice Biennale features his grim photographs of the Congo, writes Peter Murray

Regardless of what proposals may be brought to Central Council regarding a change to the current structure of the Allianz Hurling League, Cork, Limerick, Offaly, Wexford, Antrim and Laois will all play in the lower division in 2014.

Life Saving: Why We Need Poetry, Introductions to Great Poets

CORNCRAKES, barn owls, and their likes, are the ‘sick men’ among Irish birds.

CROKE PARK officials have quelled rumours that next September’s All-Ireland finals dates were changed to facilitate an American Football game.

A US woman who allegedly claims to be a vampire has bitten an elderly man.

GAA history will be made at Croke Park this evening with Hawk-Eye score detection technology trialled in Gaelic games for the first time.

What saves this violent revenge film is that it knows it’s daft but asks us to sit back and enjoy it anyway … which, for the most part, we do (with a tinge of guilt).

AN EXECUTIVE who sleepwalked naked into a female colleague’s bedroom could have dealt with the matter privately by simply agreeing to resign from a post which involved him working on a one-to-one basis with her, the High Court was told yesterday.

'X Factor' reject Gamu Nhengu is set to fight her deportation from the UK.

Heaven and Hell

DISGRUNTLED residents in the Croke Park vicinity are planning a protest convoy on the main Dublin-Cork road on the morning of tomorrow week’s All-Ireland SFC final which could cause serious delays for fans travelling to the game.

CROKE PARK officials are confident of recording an increase in the number of spectators attending the hurling and football championships by the time both competitions are decided next month.

CROKE PARK has defended the timing of Saturday’s replayed Munster final on the basis that it would have been counter-productive to play the Cork-Waterford fixture at the same time as high-profile matches elsewhere.

On Evil

RTÉ says that the decision to delay Sunday’s Munster SHC game was a direct result of a similar situation last year, when an overlap between games meant the early stages of another Munster hurling championship game wasn’t broadcast.