Jazz saxophonist Meilana Gillard has been based in Belfast since 2012. She plays Phil Grimes in Waterford on Wednesday, June 7, as part of her album release tour, writes Des O’Driscoll.

Tommy O’Connell was chatting to a couple of friends in the Croke Park Hotel an hour or two before last year’s All-Ireland final when Jimmy Magee passed by. One of the friends buttonholed Magee and, pointing to O’Connell, asked him why this man had a place in hurling history.

FILM FESTIVAL fans are on the home straight, but it’s when things get trickiest because the choice this weekend is almost overwhelming.