Marjorie Brennan selects a Top 10 of the best rebel songs

MADELAINE Nerson MacNamara nursed a dream of becoming a poet when she was in her teens.

Pitbull: Reality Bites on RTÉ2 on Thursday looks at whether some breeds of dog have been unfairly demonised in Ireland.

Eircom claims a requirement by the communications regulator that it must shoulder the burden of providing fixed phone line connections is unfair.

IN the year that the Cork writer Patrick Galvin died, my own Patrick Galvin was also in his final days. My father wasn’t distinguished or a man of letters: he had worked in the factories of Coventry from his early 30s, as a machinist, been widowed young and raised two daughters.

Cork Constitution will unveil some new players when they open their Ulster Bank AIL campaign at Temple Hill today against Clontarf (2.30pm).

John Minihan marks Culture Night and Cork International Short Story festival with illuminating photos, Tina O’Sullivan reports

For decades Paul Durcan has mapped our Free State as it descended into Hell. No other poet was so well-prepared for this prolonged and bitter cartography. Thomas McCarthy on his latest collection

THERE is no question that books will eventually be bought almost exclusively online or that we are living through the end of an era for the printed book.

THIS May 12 we waked Patrick Galvin, one of our great national poets, in Connolly Hall in Cork.

CLONMEL head the field in Munster Junior League Division One after they collected maximum points with a 28-0 away win over Kilfeacle.

Acclaimed Irish writer Patrick Galvin has died aged 83.

IN the very first poem of his beautiful new book, Theo Dorgan declares his loyalty and his aesthetic impulse:

IF a picture tells a thousand words, then one of John Minihan’s photos of his west Cork home would do instead of a sales brochure, or editorial write up.

CORK’S newest theatre has launched a drive to recruit lifetime members.

SIX leading figures in education, sport, the arts and business were conferred with honorary degrees at University College Cork (UCC) yesterday.

A 40 year-old Kildare woman has been found not guilty of murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court this morning.

Another harrowing tale of abject cruelty to youngsters in a Catholic institution, circa l930s; and a film which won high praise at the Sundance Festival almost a year ago.

WITH no title sponsor following the withdrawal of Murphys from the Cork Film Festival two years ago, festival manager Emer O’Herlihy says, financially, this year’s festival is a struggle.

The Cork Film Festival will get under way on October 12 with the premiere of the Irish film, Song for a Raggy Boy, based on a true story by Patrick Galvin

THE importance of wearing seat belts and observing drink driving laws was highlighted yesterday, following an inquest into the deaths of three men in a one-car crash in early January.

A HOPE that widespread publicity following an horrific car crash that claimed the lives of three young men would be a reminder to people to be extra careful on the roads was expressed by a priest yesterday.

The three men who were killed in a road accident near Listowel, Co Kerry in the early hours of this morning have been named by gardai.