Actor, musician and writer, Little John Nee, is a one-man band whose show, Sparkplug, is superficially autobiographical. It’s about a travelling blues man and vintage-car mechanic.

This year has proven another excellent year for Irish animation company Brown Bag Studios.

Bells tolled throughout New York City and mourners observed a moment of silence to mark the time terrorists began their attack on the US nine years ago.

JOHN McIntyre was one of life’s misfits who got mixed up with the wrong crowd, became implicated in drugs and gun-running, and ended up being murdered in 1984.

THE news that a luxury hotel has opened at Fota in Cork harbour has stirred recollections of that beautifully wooded island estate and what has come to pass there.

Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent

Eddie Irvine’s former business partner was the victim of a nakedly cynical strategy to oust him from their pub company, it was claimed today.

Former Formula One star Eddie Irvine used money from two pubs in which he had a 50% stake to stop cheques bouncing in a private account, a tribunal heard today.

Gardai have named the man whose body was recovered from Galway Bay earlier today.